About three c'notes. Now, how to spend it. Ideas, anyone?
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Christopher A. Young
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Fill your gas tank? Buy a week's groceries?
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We paid bills with ours, $600 each for the two of us.
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Saved ours to pay next winter's bills for heating oil. Seriously.
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I'm deciding between a luxury yacht or my prescription medicines or food.
You remember some decades ago. The big expression was "heat or eat". Senior
citizens didn't get enough tax payer dollars from Social Insecurity. They
found some old lady and set her up in a studio with a can of dog food.
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You're the modern version "Yacht or eat".
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Mine went to the oil bill.
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So did mine.
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You aren't kidding. I spent $60 to fill the van yesterday. Ouch!
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Much of my oh-so-stimulating $139.46 bought me another actual
made-in-USA dive light (UK C8 eLED). The rest went to other odds and
ends.
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Yes. Donate to the Republican party so they can work to put more people
in power who will circumvent the constitution and erode the rights of
Americans.
Second idea: spend it quickly while the $300 is still worth $100.
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Or you can give it to the Democrats who will do the same thing, but
with other sections of the constitution. The only major differences
between the parties are the parts of the constitution they think we can
do with out.
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My $600 went to paying estimated (3-month) Federal Income taxes. Why
can't they just lower taxes? It's an endless cycle, no wonder this
country is in the tank.
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I guess the government has some people fooled thinking the Stimulus
Check is really a "gift" when it's really their own money. Donate to
the Libertarian Party for less government.
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Huh? What "rights of Americans" are being eroded?
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The only complaint I can think of that has any traction is warrantless
wiretapping. But nations have been monitoring enemy communications since the
Confederacy and the Army of Northern Aggression tapped telegraph lines
during the Second War of Independence. We not only listened in on Nazi
military communications, we didn't even tell 'em we had broken most of their
codes! And so on.
Please remember that the executive order rounding up all the Japs at the
start of WW2 was not only promulgated by a Democrat, but that executive
order has never been rescinded.
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Most of that isn't illegal and never has been since the phone tapped
is out of the country. Courts have long said that outside the US they
don't care how the evidence is gathered.
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Stimulus Check?!
Probably the stupidest piece of legislation in recent history. Makes the
"Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska look enlightened.
Do I sound bitter for not getting one? Not at all...
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My kids didn't get them either. They make too much money.
Fortunately I'm retired.
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I thought it was a stupid idea too. I've lived through stagflation
and with these type programs, expect to face it again.
My $600 went to paying estimated (3-month) Federal Income taxes. Why
can't they just lower taxes? It's an endless cycle, no wonder this
country is in the tank.
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Or they could just pay their bills.
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This was essentially a rebate on next year's taxes (people are gonna be
****SEEEDDD Off when they figure '08 taxes and find out they owe or that
most of their refund was already given back). Most of the letters were
to make sure people filed an '07 tax form since that was the basis of
you getting the check issued. Many people don't usually have to file so
they don't.
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I don't know the relative numbers but I do know I got two to tell me
only that (a) there would be one and I could look at the web site to
find out when it should be expected and (b) a followup that it was still
on the way (which was followed by the check within 7-10 days or so
_ahead_ of the website projection by nearly a month).
What's up w/ the need for either of those at whatever cost it was? I
can't imagine I was particularly unique.
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Well, that's not really true. Many of the people who got checks don't pay
taxes. They still won't have to pay taxes. The checks were more like a
gift from the taxpayers.
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Not this time. That was last time.
The pre-mailing was to get people out spending that check before it arrived.
That way people can be out spending $600 and the economy can get $600 worth
of "stimulation" when your $150 check arrives...
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Big difference between *paying* and *filing*. You can file and not
pay. You can even file, get all of your payroll taxes back plus a
little extra:
"The Earned Income Credit (EIC), also known as the Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC), is an important anti-poverty and work incentive program
that is run by the federal government. The EIC is targeted to
individuals and especially families who earn low to moderate wages. If
a worker qualifies, the EIC will lower or eliminate any taxes owed.
If a worker is not obligated to pay any taxes or if the credit is
larger than any taxes owed, the worker will receive a cash payment
("refund") from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after filing a tax
return.
In such instances, the government is providing low-income workers
additional money beyond what they get paid at their jobs to encourage
work and to reduce poverty."
Earned Income Credit or EIC is just another form of Welfare
You really think they were that clever?
Might have worked on some, I suppose; that there was an attempt to
"prime the pump" so to speak hadn't occurred to me as possibility--just
looked(*) like a waste of trees, fuel and postage to me.
(*) Mostly still does, frankly...
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I didn't get a refund either. A one-time capital gains kicked me out of
the program yet a couple earning more than my capital gains is eligible
and can also get extra per kid.
Nothing like a system that is skewed toward fairness, eh?
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Hmmm, there can't be any taxes next year. Both candidates said so.
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When I got my $300 payment for voting for GW the first time, I did
what any good republican would do put it towards my first AR-15 rifle.
All this time I've been wondering when I'd get the $300 check for my
second vote. Better late than never, I guess.
This time it'll probably go towards the Glock 30 I've always wanted.
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I cashed mine immediately and am using it for groceries and gas - will last
almost 3 months that way. And will be puttin g new glasses on my credit
card. that is if the car passes inspection. Was supposed to be picked up
today but they got busy so hoping for tomorrow. If it doesn't pass - will
take every penny I have - and then some - to replace the car.
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Give a price range. I'll tell you how to spend it. lol
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Well, I would suggest a Mosin-Nagant and a case of ammo (or at least a good
..22 rifle and several bricks of .22 ammo) but I know that is pushing into
gray areas for you.
BEST thing to do is something that will PO Uncle!
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Every dollar of mine went to bills. and I still lost ground last month.
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Well....."splurge" means different things to different folks.
One suggestion: figure out what the difference in interest on the
credit card will be before and after putting the stimulus check toward
your balance. Then multiply that by, say, 3 (months). Then pop over to
Harbor Freight or Home Depot or Auto Zone and spend that much, with
the rest going to the "plastic slavemaster".
We put all our stimulus check on the credit card. The balance (and the
interest rate) aren't all that high, anyway, but we want to pay it off
asap. Then we'll work on paying off the mortgage early.
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Uncle wants us to spent it....all of it....as fast as possible!
I'm content to be labeled a "disobedient nephew".
Renaissance Festival might be fun.
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I would take a look at your survival supplies and ad to them. I think
yer gonna need 'em pretty soon.
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How about a locksmithing or refrig tool that's nice but not necessary?
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Are you talking about a first or second stimulus check?
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how about a mac computer?
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Not necessary, per the bumper sticker I've seen a few times on the
cars of some "Grey Panthers":
"We're spending our children's inheritance."
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A paint job on your piano.
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According to my tastes I would get a .22 rifle (eventually) with a
telescopic sight. The rifles cost 200 to 300 dollars. Or you could get a
gift for someone else, like your father or mother. Regards.
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