Thanks, Bill Clinton, for my tax refund!

[BuelahWitch]

Well, I'm getting almost $1000 tax refund, and I have ZERO children! How did this happen, and why am I not touting the Bush tax cuts for my good fortune?

If I had to depend on W's tax cut, all I would've gotten was a lousy $50 back. Fortunately, I picked 2003 to return to school. The majority of my refund comes from the Hope tax credit, which was started under BILL CLINTON!

Thanks Bill!

[Nectopod]

1. I have 5 kids, got a very nice child tax credit. Thanks, whoever did that.

It may have been Clinton. Not sure.

[Gramps]

3. You sent it back, right?

We Dems reject the tax cuts.

[Nectopod]

9. Yes. I'll mail it back right away

How could I possibly use $2000?

[Gramps]

10. That's $2000 + interest added to your children's debt.

You should be outraged. I am.

[Nectopod]

12. Yes. I am very outraged.

But my outrage doesn't supersede my need for $2000 right now.

[Gramps]

14. Only freepers accept Bush's tax cut/rebates/refunds. Send it back...

to the US Treasury. Reduce the deficit!!! Undo the harm Bush has done!!! Don't be a hypocrit by actually increasing the deficit like Bush wants you to do!!! You might as well vote for Bush.

[Nectopod]

18. Yeah, sure. I'll send it back.

Are you sending your refund back? Or did you make any money?

[Gramps]

21. I sent my $1200 child rebate back. I still owed a little on my return.

[jmowreader]

19. You can mail me $666 of it...

In 2002 I made $43,000 working two jobs and got $300 back. In 2003 I made $48,000 working two jobs, paid $400 more through withholdings, and need to send in another $666. And they said Dumbass cut taxes.

I redid my taxes for the hell of it using last year's income and withholding numbers and had to send in $350 under those numbers.

That's what you get for being childless.

[robbedvoter]

17. Nice try. A straw man. How quaint.

The tax burden has to be equitable - just because it's idiotic policy it doesn't mean we have to bear an even larger burden. And the competition is not even between individuals - even if W got back more than I own.
60% of corporations pay no taxes - how happy does THAT make you?

[RobertSeattle]

24. Hey Gramaps - I send my refund to the KERRY CAMPAIGN

Best investment in my future.

[mopinko]

27. speak for yourself- i say starve the beast

i am usually lax about deducting every penny. but this year i took every nickel i was entitled to. i am not givin those fools an extra DIME! big flippin tax cut, tho. turbo tax must be owned by some wingnuts. it is full of flags and stars and gushing about the tax cuts. it figures how much the tax cuts mean to you.
now i am an upper middle class person- agi 160,000. ain't i supposed to be on the lower edge of the fat cats here? big cut- $800.
if that's all i am gettin, where the fuck is the money goin?

[brainoverload]

2. better keep this quiet

or Herr Rove will find a way to spin the growing national debt into a creature spawned by Bill's irresponsible tax credits!

[DAGDA56]

4. That is so twisted, displaying such a bizarre thought process...

...you could easily work for the White House. All sarcasm aside, there is an uncomfortable amount of truth in what you say.

[BuelahWitch]

6. Hey that's right!

Can't have no uppity women barely scraping $20 grand a year getting such a large tax refund. They might be a doin' somethin' DANGEROUS!!! ;)

[IronLionZion]

5. yeah I got $500 back

I'm not sure who was responsible though. I'm a college student and don't own property or have any dependents. I'll probably send it to Kerry if I get a job soon.

[Gramps]

7. Send it back. Don't add to the deficit. Don't fall for *'s trickery!

[alcuno]

8. I'm maxing out to Kerry and I've never contributed to a political

campaign until this year. Thanks W!

[Gramps]

11. Sending your refund to Kerry still increases the deficit.

Send your refunds/rebates back to the US Treasury. If we all do this, it will reverse Bush's tax cut and reduce the deficit!!!

[alcuno]

13. No way. W's treasury is a bottomless pit.

I even got my mom, who voted for *, to send Kerry a check. It's the only way to save the country from the current CIC, Clown in Command.

[Gramps]

15. You are spending our children's future, just like Bush wants!

[alcuno]

16. I'm saving my children and grandchildren.

I'm saving the world.

[Gramps]

22. Didn't you see the moveon.org ad of the sweatshop...?

It showed our children and grandchildren having to work off the Bush tax cut. How can you keep your rebate and refund after knowing these facts from moveon???

[girl gone mad]

26. You aren't fooling anyone.

uPUtting the money back into the treasury is a mistake because Bush will just continue his reckless spending.

The solution lies in electing a responsible leader to reign in spending and return to more equitable taxation.

Kerry, not Bush, will be that leader.

Bush, like Reagan before him, created irresponsible deficits. Kerry, like Clinton before him, will clean up a mess created by irresponsible GOP policies.

[Madrone]

20. Smells like -

they who shall not be named in here.


On topic -

Cool for you, filmfan! I got $150 less than I got last year, with an increased salary. No kids, etc, here either.

[girl gone mad]

23. I had to send in..

over $4000.

I'm trying to convince myself it isn't going straight into Cheney's pockets.

:(

[Turbineguy]

25. I figure my tax reduction savings

will equal my investment losses since Chimpy's nomination

in about 400 years. Fortunately, I expect that Bush environmental legacy will ensure that my life will be over long before that evil day.

That's why I'm glad we have King George keeping us happy!

[Mick Knox]

28. wtf? I aint sending mine back... no f'n way...

I can figure out how I want to spend it WAY better than him. I'm sure the 500 trillion wont miss my 4 digit check.