I guess I'm just not "getting" it, Jerry. Outrage over an unnecessary
mailing I can "get" if it is true it was not required. I will gladly give W
a bash point on that one if they are making it up. But the letter (which I
just retrieved from my mail box) clearly says "U.S. Congress" first as
voting on it and then W as signing it. Maybe it's a kind of
government/bureaucratic legality, you know, like all the other bureaucratic
mailings we get from the Gov? What about the slick, multi-paged and
multi-colored Social Security projections we have been getting regularly the
past few years? I can't recall the figures on the costs of printing and
mailing those, but it was astronomical.
I don't get why people are outraged at receiving some of their own money
back. I make significantly under the 6 figure mark and yet pay out 60% in
total taxes a year. It's not like I'm refusing to pay or hoarding something
from someone more deserving. Most people are not going to hide the $300 or
$600 under their mattress. Most of it is going to go right back into the
economy and most of that will be taxed again. I can use it for an
unexpected recent hospital charge that was not covered by my insurance and
whatever's left over is going to the good people of the state of
Massachusetts around Labor Day time ;-)
Kakki
N.P. Byrds Sessions 1965-1967 (the best thing that came in my mailbox
today - Thanks Paz!)
