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What tax rebate?
Once again Bush is snookering us in an enormous game of Economic National Monopoly.
It is NOT a rebate; It IS an advance on the 2008 taxes you'll be paying in 2009.
It's the same sham of a scam perpetrated on the public in 2001, because it sure sounds a lot like the "Tax Rebate Lie of 2001," the sequel.
Of course, they would never call it what it is: An advance on 2008 tax refunds, just like it was in '01.
Just as in 2001, many tax payers were delighted to get that feel-good check for $300, if they got that much. Mine was $37.11.
It didn't feel so good when they went to do their 2001 taxes in 2002, and found that the $300 was nothing more than a loan, and hardly any of them read the fine print.
They were lied to, and they discovered to their alarm that they owed all the windfall money, if not more, to the tax collector.
Kind of like when our criminally sleazy government demands pay-backs of "signing bonuses" from veterans who are injured too severely to continue their service in the military.
I wonder if that bit of cruel nastiness is etched into the extra fine print of the contracts they sign with the military.
Beware, very wary of anything this administration says it's going to do "for the folks." It's as big a lie as any lie Bill O'Reilly tells the "folks" on any given day.
