January 24, 2008
How stupid do they think we are?
Who says politicians can't work together to accomplish great things?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional leaders announced a deal with the White House Thursday on an economic stimulus package that would give most tax filers refunds of $600 to $1,200, and more if they have children.
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The rebates, which would go to about 116 million families, had appeal for both Democrats and Republicans. Pelosi's staff noted that they would include $28 billion in checks to 35 million working families who wouldn't have been helped by Bush's original proposal. Republicans, for their part, were pleased that the bulk of the rebates—more than 70 percent, according to an analysis by Congress' Joint Tax Committee—would go to individuals who pay taxes.
Isn't that just great? Tax rebates for those of us who pay too much to the government. And even better, tax rebates for about 30 million families who don't pay any taxes.
Wait a minute -- how can you earn a "rebate" if you haven't paid in to the pot? I guess if you play the semantics game.
You see, it's really called, "bribing the idiotic voters so they'll vote for me again, and doing it by using the other, better-off voters' money for the bribes."
Bribing your neighbor with your money. Brilliant.
It's also nothing but theft.
Isn't it just grand that the GOP managed to keep the percentage of freeloading households who received the undeserved "rebates" to just around 30 million families, instead of insisting that the number be zero?
Sigh
It's typical of the madness that is Washington, D.C., that this compromise is seen as better than no bill at all -- even to the GOP, which used to stand for the idea that forced redistribution of wealth is an unambiguously bad thing.
I can't think of anything more Un-American than the government taking $600 out of your pocket and simply handing it to a stranger because it thinks somebody else needs it more than you do.
Infuriating.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 24, 2008 06:30 PM
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Socialism.
Undisguised.
As it thundered tonight, I thought for a second that I saw Four Horsemen over the islands.
Posted by: The Little Coach at January 24, 2008 07:15 PM