You can keep all your own money. Print up some StreamBucks (or, since “Euro” is taken, how about “Urea”), and you’ll be able to keep all of it that you like. Nobody else will want to take a single red cent, or yellow cent, or whatever you make it to be.
Oh, you meant, your money, as in, all of that you acquired due to being part of a society. Well, that’s different, isn’t it?
I’m pretty sure the Fed is way ahead of you on that one.
The Ms and I gave our rebates to charity the last time around. I won’t be pandered to by the most egregious fuckwit to ever disgrace the presidency and our country. He and his cabinet are criminals that should have been impeached after the first four years, and I can’t wait to see their sorry rebating asses kicking horse turds down the beltway.
A rebate? This is the best these half-witted fucktards can come up with to prop up a tanking economy? An economic situation that, by the way, they have helped create by ignoring what the bankers and corporations have been shoving up our asses for the past eight years. I can hardly wait to see what it’s going to cost me to bail these financial institutions out.
In the meantime, the EU and Asia have discovered that they really don’t need us after all, and that a tanking U.S. economy is good news for them. After a one day bounce, their markets are back in full vigor. George Bush has done everything in his power to destroy this country’s reputation, honor and economy, and he’s very nearly succeeded. One more year should be just about long enough to finish the job. :mad:
I think you are actually correct. Gotcha.
10 years of profits from my employer (a Government agency) would cover this.
Um, could. Could cover this. Possibly.
Political Logic:
From one Christian to another…ssshhhhhh, you’re making us look bad.
Have you read the bible? You have proclaimed to follow Jesus in this thread, so what facet of his teachings are you emulating here?
If you would like to discuss this in another thread, feel free. But when people claim to be Christian and then (by defiance to him or ignorance of him) act opposite of his message, its sort of a turn off…
Could someone please point me to the chapter in the New Testament wherein Jesus’ equates seizing and giving?
Well, if we can accept ‘giving’ and ‘rendering’ as equivalent… and ‘seizing’ sounds rather like ‘Caesar’… then, yep, it IS in the New Testament. But you can find it yourself.
I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I questioned the fact that Jesus thought we should pay our taxes. I must have typed that somewhere without knowing it.
Let’s not hijack this thread. Open a new one if you want…
And I’m not sure you know how to read.
Since you paid income taxes, you will be receiving a rebate. The Democrats under Mrs. Pelosi added a provision to pay $300/pp to those who haven’t paid income taxes. That is the subject of this thread, and it is NOT a rebate.
Jesus talked about giving one’s own bread, cloak, shelter, etc. to the least of our brothers. He did not say you should take Jacob’s bread to feed Joshua.
As for Caesar and taxes, I am not an Ancient History expert, but I’m pretty sure that Caesar’s taxes were used to wage war and expand the empire. I don’t recall him giving bread to the slaves.
What, just by cutting the interest rate from practically nothing to approximately nothing? I couldn’t care less. It’ll be $1200 in my bank account for when the economy really goes south, it won’t be circulating in the economy propping up a bunch of Wall Street investors, and if this is just a “prebate” on next year’s taxes, I’ll have it ready to pay back, because I rarely pay in much more in income taxes than absolutely necessary. My average tax refund is generally $1000 or less.
You recall the expression “bread and circuses”?
I don’t recall Jesus acknowledging a distinction. Pay your taxes, no matter what they are used for. Your reward awaits you in heaven.
I agree. This ‘rebate’ annoys me. I spent some effort and time to balance my witholdings so I would owe nothing and get a small refund (as I prefer to get a small refund than to pay). Now, I’ll just have to sit on the money so I can give it back later?! Ugh. And, thanks for the favor (not).
Precisely. THere is nowhere in the gospel, AFAIK, that Jesus advocates a strict respect for property rights. Indeed, he reserves some of his strongest condemnations for those who treat property rights as license to do ill, or even as license to withhold from the poor. “Buy your own damn groceries” sounds like the kind of sentiment that would earn you a beatdown from the son of god.
Daniel