== 10 ways to blow your tax rebate = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Gas, video games, meditation, booze. What, you were planning on paying bills? As if

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/05/02/notes050208.DTL&nl=fix

Here's the bad news: Your little recession-deflecting tax rebate? No rebate at all. Not even close.

It's more like this: You've been continuously mugged and beaten and robbed blind for the past seven years straight, and as you lay there on the cold, hard economic ground, bleeding and gasping and wondering what the hell happened to your vacation time and your health care plan and your mortgage payment, your attackers scoff and leer and toss a couple of bloodstained nickels on your pulverized face and mutter, here sucker, have some bus fare, and then they cackle and stomp away with all your loot and dignity and hope, back to the White House from whence they came.

What, too harsh? Not really. It's a lovely feeling, made even more sweetly ironic by the fact that Congress will likely soon shove through another $108 billion in war funds like a giant gallstone through our collective fiscal urethra. Right there, that's about 500 bucks for each and every adult human in America, baristas and Baptists and NASCAR fans alike.

Do you see? Your "economic stimulus" check is meaningless, an empty gesture, a trifling crumb of recompense after robbing you blind via insane gas prices, infrastructure meltdowns, massive failed wars that aren't really wars. Thanks for the bogus check, Dubya, now where can I buy a sliver of our missing national dignity? Oh, that's right. ...

[hobbit709]

1. That's it.

[RC]

2. So call rebates. Just another way to help bankrupt this once great nation.

[Hissyspit]

3. I spend mine on my annual doctor visit. Thanks, banks of the Peoples Republic of China.

[Fumesucker]

4. A minor nit...

Gallstones don't pass through the urethra, that's kidney stones.

And yeah, they do kinda' hurt a bit.

[Lugnut]

5. K&R n/t

[Revlon10]

7. Use it to impeach Bush

http://impeachforpeace.org/ImpeachNow.html

[comtec]

6. Since I'm in holland I CAN get blown with my rebate

and with the exchange rate as bad as it is, that's about all I can afford with it ;)
That and maybe some shoarma.

[Elspeth]

8. This is exactly right

Sigh

[FourScore]

9. Mark Morford is my favorite columnist right now. k&r. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Bump!

[scarletwoman]

11. kick -- wish I had seen this early enough to rec, too. (nt)