For U.S. Users: What are you buying with your rebate check?

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:37 pm

Excuse my ignorance of US tax, but does this happen often or is this unprecedented? Because on face value this sounds like a pre-election giveaway/bribe to me....

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:41 pm

And what would the bribe be for? Bush can't run again. I'm voting Obama anyway.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:47 pm

Very true. The Republicans would still surely benefit from being seen to give a tax cut/rebate a year or so before the election though, surely? Tax cuts/rebates pre-election is hardly new, and certainly not exclusive to the US. Just an observation really.

Will be interesting to see how close Obama gets.

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:46 pm

Well yeah, I guess, but I don't think most Americans are really going to feel inclined to show any gratitude to the republican party for this. It's not like they're doing it just to be nice - there are other reasons that benefit the government. I'm guessing that for most Americans this is more like a "Well it's about time!" type of reaction.

I don't care if they personally wrote me a check for a million bucks - McCain and Huckabee are not getting my vote because republicans are 99% Christian zealots.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:23 pm

CoBoC wrote:I don't care if they personally wrote me a check for a million bucks - McCain and Huckabee are not getting my vote because republicans are 99% Christian zealots.

Glad to hear it

vonarx · Post by **vonarx** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:01 pm

something for my drum set, or i might just save it.

Phasen · Post by **Phasen** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:56 pm

Cupz wrote:why the fuck is the US giving away money when they have such a large debt?

Cause they're retarded....Actually they borrow money out of each citizens paychecks and then give some of it back annually, so they aren't really giving it away-just giving it back. There's also some whackos who say that in order to function properly we must have such a large debt, that we have a debt based economy. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the dollar to fizzle out and be worthless. I hate politics, economics, etc. (mostly because i don't understand it at all)

And I spent my tax return on my Radiohead ticket, and the rest on rent and food. I haven't bought groceries since.