On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:50:46PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > So, instead of making the tax cut package *quite* as big, increase > EIC payments, if that's not being done already. (Anyone have stats > regarding that?) Or increase some other benefits that these folks > with little enough income to have no tax liability can use.
Yes, that would make more sense for stimulating the economy. > I agree that helping out the folks making $15-25K somehow so that > *they* can inject a little more into the economy will do something to > help, but giving a "tax cut" to people not paying any taxes to *be* > cut is not *necessarily* the way to do it. Sending out a check to > *everyone* with a kid, regardless of income, and not saying anything > about "tax cuts" in the process would be more constructive and less > divisive (except to the people who don't have kids and might resent it > -- but a kid costs more per year to raise than the government is going > to hand anyone just on account of their having a kid.) I don't have kids and it wouldn't bother me. Kids consume a great deal, so if you want to stimulate the economy, sending money to parents with kids is not a bad way to do it. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
