Does the proposed tax rebate check ($300- $800) really help anyone out?

[NightWatcher]

Last time we got a check, my $300 went to the Sierra Club abd a few other charities. This time if we get a check to "stimulate the economy" my check will go to pay debts and will be spent before I even get it.

I have $18 dollars in the bank. Without a job or a case soon, I'm going to be waiting tables...again.

[DangerDave921]

1. waiting tables

That is a job, and can pay very well.

What do you mean by getting a case soon? You mean a legal case?

[NightWatcher]

5. I'm a private eye...and boy is business sloooowwww

when the economy starts to act slow, business dries up for a few months. 9/11 almost killed the industry.

[laylah]

17. One of my very

dearest friends in also a private investigator. He was usually very busy but yes, times have changed for all of us.

As for the "rebate", I'll "stimulate" the economy by buying real groceries for the first time in many months, and paying my car insurance ahead 6 months, instead of the usual one month at a time.

[tularetom]

2. Mine will help out the Dem candidate for president

because I'm gonna turn around and sign it right over to them.

[Sonicmedusa]

3. Bush wants us to go shopping

So we can help the Big Guys out. It is not about you and me.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Did it help anyone seven years ago, when the Junta tried this before?

This is nothing more than bread and circuses: a desperate attempt to bolster Failure's ratings and polish up the extremely dirty perception of the Rethuglican party.

[NightWatcher]

9. it will be their mantra. Vote for a repub, we cut taxes and gave you a check

and the rednecks and morans will line up to vote for them.

Quid pro quo. it is a buyng of votes and nothing more. And the Dems will sign on in the next week or so.

[havocmom]

12. I knoiw lots of people who were really pissed come the next April

and they ended up paying most if not all of that tax refund advance back to the IRS.

If THIS malAdministration wants something, we can bank on it costing the average citizen more in the end.

[Orrex]

6. What galls me isn't this pittance of a rebate

What galls me is that, the last time around, a number of my coworkers actually took Bush's half-assed handout as a half-assed justification for continuing to vote Republican for the rest of their lives.

I'd be happy to receive an extra $300, which will go for groceries, heat, electricity, or whatever. But unlike my coworkers and their ilk, I won't interpret it as any sort of Republican magnanimity.

[panader0]

7. When will it arrive? How long do I have to wait to file my taxes?

I usually get a rebate and was thinking of filing soon, but don't want to lose the "stimulous"

[Orrex]

8. Why would you have to wait? And why would you lose the stimulous?

I don't believe that it counts as income--the last time around it was simply an addional rebate on top of whatever else you were otherwise due.

[fasttense]

10. Just like the last rebate that the bushes gave us

middle class, it will be deducted from your 2008 tax refund. It is only money you would have gotten in 2009 from your tax refund but now the bushes act like they are doing you a favor by giving it to you in 2008. Just long enough for him to stumble out of the WH before the economy flushes down the commode.

They can keep their freaking temporary loan of my own money, it ain't going to do me any good. I bet the uber wealthy will see rebates in the ten's of thousands.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. They can keep mine as well. It won't do me any good, since I always end up writing a check on

tax day. So I write an even larger check, including a penalty? No thanks!

[spotbird]

16. What if I owe taxes?

Please tell me they won't send me one of these checks too.

[malaise]

11. Only if you head to the Mall on a day when Bush doesn't scream

terra terra terra!!

[Tracer]

14. Last time, I got a check for $500...

... and I sent it right back to the IRS in the form of a quarterly estimated tax payment. (I'm self-employed).

So, yeah --- it helped a teeny bit.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. The rebates will be borrowed money. All this will do is delay the inevitable for a few more months.

[newportdadde]

18. I'll buy some gold and silver.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. It helps the politicians pretend they're doing something besides panicking.