As it turns out this is nothing more than a pre payment of what may be your refund in the next year. Based on what your filing status is. If they send me $600.00 because my wife and I pay taxes based on this notion will I have to give it back next april 15th? You see I have had to pay more than $600.00 in income and social security tax over and above what is taken out of my paycheck every year for the last 6-8 years. I haven't had a refund of any sustance in 14 years.

I was alays under the impression that this was a return on taxes already paid. Not a prefund of taxes that it is assumed you may owe. The Republicans told me a lie and the Democrats agreed to it in enough numbers to get this fraud passed.

If thats what this really is thats fine. If its really a $600.00 check with those strings attached would it have passed the muster of the public if the truth had been told from the first? I doubt it. But this is what I've come to expect.

Don