I'm not getting any of that $400, remember?  It's an earned income
credit for children, not singletons without children.

Let me make it clear that I don't begrudge the parents that $400; God
knows they need it.  It's just that the $3 less in taxes per paycheck
isn't much to put back into the economy and I'd far rather that were put
into social welfare and environmental programs.

Kat

Cleveland, Kyle E. wrote:
> Well, Kat, the "official" line on the avg. $400 per family check/cheque was
> that we (the average American compulsive over-spender) would toss that check
> back into the economic river as fast as we could get it out of our mailboxes
> and into the bank.  That was supposed to "kick-start" the economy and put
> Mr. Bush into a favorable light as the president who gave back some of the
> tax dollars we all complain about having to pay.  Isn't that a pretty fair
> assessment of the administration's logic?  Trouble is, I don't know of a
> soul who thought this was a good idea.  I know no one who thought the check
> they're supposed to get this summer (Btw, haven't got mine yet. Have you?)
> was worth the kick in the knees it gave to an already unsteady economic
> recovery.  Now, the recovery has stopped and we're back to deficit spending
> again (to be fair, though, our economic slowdown started before the
> election--it just didn't become apparent until GWB was already in office).
>