BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: DougR
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 06:45 PM

I'm gonna spend it on a very worthwhile charity. Me! And I'm happy to get it back.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: Kim C
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 06:38 PM

I don't expect to get one. :-]

You can find out more info at the IRS website: www.irs.gov

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 06:24 PM

I suspect Don is correct. I have said from the start that I would belive it when the check is in my hot little hand. We too have had to send in more than $600 per year since my Mom died. Estate bullshit.

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 06:15 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 06:04 PM

Yep, "Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away."

I had a friend in the AV's who worked up an "interlocking directorate chart" for big coal/steel/automotive, etc. The damn thing was about 30 feet long and 6 feet wide and no one on it made less per year than what the average resident of 246 Appalachian counties made in a lifetime.

As to the rebate......The economy continues to go down hill and once again we're hearing about SS problems. The infrastructure stinks.................Exquisite logic. Thank you Shrubby for proving how stupid you can be.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: Peter T.
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 05:46 PM

Bill Raney, West Virginia Coal Association, and Big Coal: 3.8 million dollars to the Republican Party, 2000 election. Peabody Energy, $250,000 to Republican National Committee, Chairman Engelhardt personally gave $100,000 to the Bush-Cheny Inaugural Fund. February 2001, Peabody Energy decides for some reason to have an initial share offering, files with SEC. May 22, 5 days after Bush Energy Plan released, Peabody Energy goes public, Chairman Engelhardt's personal reward? $23 million personal rebate. Yep, those Republicans, the party of the little man and the Jeffersonian farmer. Enjoy your vast rebate, Claymore.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 05:34 PM

Does anybody know just how these are being distributed? (I know, the Postal System) I mean what order, etc? Bubba rec'd his but we haven't yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: SharonA
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 05:26 PM

I'm not a Democrat (yet), so I'm keepin' mine. I figure that it's the beginning of a payback for when W's daddy broke his promise of "Read my lips; no new taxes"... But the Bushes certainly will not buy my trust by giving me back some of my own money.

SharonA

Subject: Tax Rebate - Thanks, Mr. President
From: GUEST,Claymore
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 05:15 PM

There it was in my mailbox, a Grade A, US Government Inspected, Tax Rebate check for three hundred smackers, courtesy of George W. and those unbuffalo'd members of Congress, who decided to trust me with my own money. The car rental for my Ireland trip in the latter part of August just got a significant upgrade, ( an automatic transmission, since I don't want to be downshifting my door handle as I approach one of them round-about things). Even my bank teller was smiling as I deposited it, as sure as the last missle test.

And I have no problem spending it on me, as I worked hard three times to get it. Once to earn the money and pay my taxes, once in getting it by the McCain people, and finally by urging my fellow West Virginians to vote Republican for the first time since the Civil War, and being the State that put W over. (Actually the local newspapers chucked it up to the "repugnance of the WV voters over Clinton's repellent behavior.")

Now I know that the Democrats think that it is just horrible that some of their constituent group's favorite charities are not getting my hard-earned tax money, so I thought I would give them a chance to help us benighted Republicans to see the light, by telling us how much they are getting in the Tax Rebate, and to which charities they are donating the WHOLE amount to, so as to ensure that we could not construe any hypocracy from their previous statements, and former positions.

I know that with all the heartfelt ardor with which they espoused their positions against the "foolish tax rebate," they cannot possibly keep any of the money, and still maintain a moral outlook on life.

So what's it for; voter education in Florida?, the Jesse Jackson Unwed Mother Fund?, perhaps the Clinton Pardon Purchase Plan? (I understand they're still taking installment payments).

I offer this thread for those who not only earned enough money to pay taxes, (thereby having an actual monetary stake in the outcome of the past election), and having previouly been indued with only with a breathless opinion, they now the money to back it up.

To those who clearly and honestly intend to give their Tax Rebate money to what they perceive as a worthwhile cause, I truely and honestly salute you. If it's to some person who never earned a dime, you truely do believe in welfare.

But for those special children who may try and finesse the question with a testy answer and no substance, we.. will.. know...