Comments on: So what about this $600

By: Mouseclone

Mouseclone — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:37:50 +0000

DineometerDeb: You know, at first I was really happy about it. Wootage! an extra refund. Then I get to thinking about how much I spend in gas and other taxes. Then I realize that I could end up being taxed on the $600 as well. You know it is just over the $599 mark to not be taxed on as income. Of course if I’m going to be taxed on that I will just take off the time it takes me to do my taxes.

I don’t think that it is fair to the people of this nation to do such a thing to them and not really showing them the entire picture. This country is broke. We will fall into a second world nation in a few years, maybe even a 3rd world nation.

Who will bail us out? No one. All of the countries that depend on us will fall or start depending on someone else. The U.S. needs to be a little more selfish. You can’t help someone else until you help yourself. The U.S. is in trouble, and we continue to help other nations.

By: DineometerDeb

DineometerDeb — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:47:59 +0000

Does anyone really think that with gas prices the way they are that anyone will be spending the money on luxury merchandise? More than likely they will use it to pay their Shell and Texaco bills. Hey…..I will have 300 dollars more to spend on gas….maybe this is the point. Bush is helping out his oil friends. Extra cash just in time to pay for the gas for our summer vacations.

On a side note: I have been listening to Jennifer Government by Max Barry. Anyone read it? Futuristic novel where everyone has the last name of their employer. So we have Haley McDonalds and Violet Exxon-Mobile and John Nike.

By: Mouseclone

Mouseclone — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:32 +0000

Chip: I just wish they would start all over. People will say that it would be impossible. I find that hard to believe. It was only a little over 200 years that this country started. It is a good time to start over. We should wipe it all clean. The government programs, all of them.

People would help each other out I believe. Then again I could be wrong. I’m not an econ expert by no means. I enjoy spending money. I also enjoy it when people pull their own weight.

By: chip

chip — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:03:32 +0000

well-known economists have said, more or less, that the $600/person is not going to keep us from the impending recession, so i’m basically with you on this standpoint. the government’s time and money would be better spent to come up with a solution for the social security and medicare/medicaid issues. fix what’s broken before handing out refunds.

By: Mouseclone

Mouseclone — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:42:46 +0000

I can’t remember where I read it today but someone said that if his company would just give him a 5% raise then the would be happy. The reason that he stated that was that the tax breaks that Bush has given the wealthy are not trickling down hill.

If nothing trickles, then the econ will crash. It doesn’t matter if you have 100billion, you will run out of money of people are not buying your products.

Maybe fight club will happen. Maybe something else. I do know that Hillary, Obama, what ever the republicans are will not and can not fix this. I believe in the post that I read today that if the big companies will raise the wages of there people and share that wealth that Bush gave them then, they(the companies) would see an even bigger jump in business because more people would be able to buy their crap.

The only real people that I see at fault here are the U.S. citizens for not standing up for their rights. People used to not be taxed to death. The government started programs to help people out. For everyone program that the government created, the also created a tax on the people and on the government. Now we have to pay tax and SS. I have no choice but to support the people that do not want to work, because my taxes go to those that refuse to work.

Stop the war. Stop the SS, should have been stopped a long time ago. Stop welfare. Stop the crazy spending on stupid stuff. Make things a little more black and white, or multicolored, just make them destenct. We don’t need people hiding money for roads construction in a state, when the bills primary reason is to stop water pollution.

Stupid stupid government and U.S. Citizens. It is a crazy thought, but should we over though our government now, or just wait until no one can afford to eat?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:49:33 +0000

I am glad to see you make a post on your opinion about our current status in this nation. I agree that we are giving away borrowed money with this refund. Most people will use the money to either pay off a credit debt or to buy an item which will have been made somewhere else. I think the best thing our country could do to help boost the ecomony would be to force big oil and automobile compines to look into other furl options. Other then that we need to drudge through this and stop giving away money we borrowed from China, Mexico, and Canada.