Now I hear via WPR that it's a rebate on your taxes, i.e., you need to have PAID that much in taxes first before you can be rebated on it. So if you do not OWE any tax, i.e., you do not earn enough money to pay tax, you get NADA. But if you make enough money, you WILL get the rebate. According to what I heard on the radio, the more you make, the more of this rebate you will see (up to a point...they also say that those making over $XXX,XXX will not get a rebate).
So if you earn $90,000 you get the whole enchilada, and if you earn $12,000, you get SQUAT. If you have worked all your life and paid taxes and now live on social security, you too get squat.
Explain to me the logic in this. The people who would NEED the money the most get nothing? Whereas the ones who will use Uncle George's Fun Pack like Gramma's Xmas money to buy some energy consuming status gadget WILL get it?
It's like the way Stan and I joke with eachother pretending to be a rich republican politician: "Why give the poor the money? They're not using it."
The Repugnican's (and obsequious Democrat's) logic in this is that they don't want it to be a welfare handout. Oh no, wouldn't want to help the citizens of your country who aren't as fortunate as you, oh no. They must be punished.
And before anyone gives me the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" argument, let me say this: Some people don't have bootstraps. How the hell can you pull yourself up without bootstraps? Some people weren't even told WHERE to get the bootstraps. Or maybe they were told by people who used bootstraps A LONG TIME AGO on how to acquire bootstraps, but that store is no longer in business and that info is completely useless.
This is why this whole stimulus package is pure bogosity. Use the money to fix our infrastructure, highways, bridges, or put it into research developing sustainable fuels. Like the space race of the 1960s put it into research to find eco-friendly and independence from foreign fuel.
Or Bush can take the stimulus package and shove it up his ass. I'd like to see that one on YouTube.
Labels: Politically Incorrect
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I love your bootstrap analogy. It is wonderfully brilliant, and so very very true!
Thanks Dawn. See, I never had bootstraps, and never had access to any. I had shoelaces, but they kept breaking because they were for shoes, not boots. Finally I made my own laces ( not bootstraps ) out of woven milkweed pod fibers that grow in my backyard. So far, they're holding up. But they're still not bootstraps.
By the time they decide how to do this all of the only people qualified for rebates will be friends of the Bush family.
My point was --- no matter how they set up the forms --- The working poor will be fortunate to get $2 and 50 cents more. This isn't going to benifit the people who can't afford gas for their car and can't get to work without it.
The Bush administration is EVIL PERIOD
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