> If you don't pay any federal income tax, you shouldn't > expect any form of a rebate in return. If the goal is > to just hand out checks to citizens, then that's just > a handout.
Jeff, that's true, and that is the plan--as long as you drop the word "income" from the sentence. It should read "If you don't pay any federal tax....", not "If you don't pay any federal income tax...." Income tax is only one of the federal taxes. There is also Social Security and Medicare. As I've said, there's no plan to rebate anyone more than they paid in federal taxes. (And that is not to mention the federal excise taxes like the one on gas. I doubt that there is a working family in the US--and they are the targets of the rebates--that didn't pay more than the planned rebate amounts in one federal tax or another.) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
