I just got my Obama tax cut today

[bluestateguy]

My paycheck was just wired to me this morning.

It's $22 higher.

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. Congrats!!

[lunatica]

2. Algo es algo...

dijo un calvo cuando un pelo le salio.

Translation: Something is something said the bald man when one hair grew out.

Glass half full and all...

[graywarrior]

3. Cool!

My unemployment check was $25 higher this week.

[firedupdem]

4. Excellent! n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. For real? nt

[Deja Q]

6. Awesome! Every little bit DOES help!

[lunatica]

7. This to us, but millions to AIG executives

this is not an anti-Obama slam, and I won't turn it down and it will help pay one or part of one bill, but it sure doesn't solve much. How is it supposed to stimulate the economy? By keeping the credit card companies with their 23% interest well paid? I wish I had the luxury of using it to help Americans keep their jobs by buying something, but I don't.

[geckosfeet]

8. Damn. That's $1144 a year! You're on easy street!

[Beacool]

9. Good for you!!!

But I'll say the same thing that I said when Bush gave us $300 in the early '00s: keep it and reduce the deficit. Unfortunately, they never did and now we are wallowing in debt.

:-(

[Davis_X_Machina]

11. If you look inside the front cover of the 1040 booklet...

...there are instructions on how to cut a check to the Bureau of the Public Debt, to make voluntary payments against it.

Have at it.

[Beacool]

12. Thanks for the info.

Although the measly $13 per week that I'll be getting from April through December is even less than a drop in the bucket. What nation's economy is going to thrive with a trillions of dollars in deficit? Who do we go to for more money when our usual sources run out?

:-(

[Zavulon]

13. Are you saying you're against Obama's spending plans?

They require a lot of deficit spending and borrowing.

As for the "usual sources," I imagine that most of them are happy with any tax cut, even if it's only $13. In these times, $52 a month makes a difference for a lot of people. If your $13 is merely a drop in the bucket, can we count on you sending it in to relieve the debt? Every little bit helps.

[CBR]

14. Yup...

for me, $52 is an extra tank of gas and more bread, milk, eggs and chicken at the end of the month when they usually have run out. It is important to my hubby and I.

[Beacool]

18. No one knows for sure what will work.

They are throwing things against the wall and hoping that something sticks. Yes, the huge deficits that we are incurring make me very nervous.

Only time will tell if the economic plan will work.

:-(

I forgot to add, by "usual sources" I meant China, Japan and Saudi Arabia. When these nations won't buy more of our Treasury bonds or lend us money, what do we do then? Are we just going to print billions of dollars?

[WCGreen]

10. Yep, my wife's was 34 dollars on the plus side...

[leftofthedial]

15. recovery is just around the corner!

(at the gas station, where prices have gone up over 30 cents per gallon in the last few weeks.)

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. Not actually a bad sign, overall...

...since the recent collapse of oil prices seems to have been at least as much due to demand decline in a declining economy as to wringing out a speculative spike.

Not that I was in love with $4.06/gal, either, mind you.

[FrenchieCat]

17. I loaded up tax tables last week, and so the folks I process payroll for

got a nice little surprise earlier than was promised.

Pretty efficient, I'd say! :thumbsup: