Posted by
Dave Kooker on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:02:49 PM
It is really nice of the Federal Government to allow some of the taxpayers and anyone else who files a tax return to receive a 600-dollar tax rebate check. I favour the worldview that money earned belongs to the one that earned it. I cringe when I hear someone say that earned money belongs to the government and it is the government’s generosity that allows us to spend a portion of it. I for one am not happy that I was denied a 600-dollar tax rebate check because I was too successful in my annual corporate America earnings.
A higher earnings does not mean an individual has a large amount of money to be indiscriminately spent. For example, after paying property taxes to fund government schools, I spend my own money again to send my son to private school because Government schools here in Duval county Florida are a real abomination and I really want my son to learn how to read and write. Paying for anything twice does not leave much discretionary income. Thanks Uncle Sam that really motivates me to jump out of bed in the morning and work harder. I really did not need the money anyway.
I really wonder who really is going to benefit from the 600-dollar tax rebate check, America or the rest of the world?
If we spend that money at K-Mart or Wal-Mart, the money will go to China.
If we spend that money on gasoline, the money will go to the Arabs and terrorist.
If we purchase a computer it will go to Taiwan.
If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
If we purchase a good car it will go to Japan.
If we purchase useless crap it will go to Korea and none of it will help the American economy.
The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced in America.
I am also curious where the money was found to allow our Federal government selective generosity of the 600-dollar tax rebate checks? Were the funds readily available or is this another unfunded government initiative that was funded by a foreign country and will be due for payment at a future date so that my son and his children will be burdened to pay for it? So as I view this trivial attempt to jump-start an over taxed and heavily regulated American economy, countries like China and the Arab countries benefit twice. China and the Arab countries make money by financing our hyper-spending government and also by selling products to us that America businesses used to produce but our government regulated out of business within our borders.
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