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Tax Refunds, explained for the common citizen

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by jdclyde

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I thought this was a great explanation of the tax rebate program now being debated in Congress.

If you don't understand the Democrats' version of tax refunds, maybe this will help explain it:

50,000 people went to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due.

The team was about to mail refunds when a group of Congressional Democrats stopped them and suggested that they send out the ticket refunds based on the Democrat National Committee's interpretation of fairness.

Originally the refunds were to be paid based on the price each person had paid for the tickets. Unfortunately that meant most of the refund money would be going to the ticket holders that had purchased the most expensive tickets. This, according to the DNC, is considered totally unfair. A decision was then made to pay out the refunds in this manner:

People in the $10 seats will get back $15. After all, they have less money to spend on tickets to begin with. Call it an 'Earned Income Ticket Credit.' Persons 'earn' it by having few skills, poor work habits, and low ambition, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.

People in the $25 seats will get back $25, because it 'seems fair.'

People in the $50 seats will get back $1, because they already make a lot of money and don't need a refund. After all, if they can afford a $50 ticket, they must not be paying enough taxes.

People in the $75 luxury box seats will each have to pay an additional $25 because it's the 'right thing to do'.

People walking past the stadium that couldn't afford to buy a ticket for the game each will get a $10 refund, even though they didn't pay anything for the tickets. They need the most help. Sometimes this is known as Affirmative Action.

Now do you understand?

If not, contact Representative Nancy Pelosi, Senator Ted Kennedy or Senator Hillary Clinton for assistance.

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by jdclyde

but decided it would be to easy to get into a heated political debate on why it is good to promote stealing from the rich, blahblahblah, so made it on it's own.

I HAVE made contributions to the yuk, so come over and play! B-)

by jdclyde

you work for a living, so we need to "redirect" your return to someone [i]"less fortunate"[/i] than yourself that has beer to drink and cartoons to watch. :p

by jaqui

you mean he had a [b]private box[/b]?
doesn't that mean he has to pay an additional $3,000.00 under this policy?

]:)

by cmiller5400

Sometimes I swear that the people on welfare do better than us people that work our a$$'s off and barely make it. I have always wondered why the low income housing units a few miles from me have BMW's, Hummers, and other fancy cars that I can not afford, parked in the lot... I guess that it must be that I am too honest and can't lie. ]:)

by jdclyde

During tax season, you would think this would not be so far off topic that it would have to be swept under the rug so quickly. :(

by dawgit

you made refference to (woo)Man, don't you know they're watch'n you boy. B-) -d

by jdclyde

if you didn't have to pay for housing, food, and medical.

If you do part time work under the table, so your not even paying taxes....

and of course when the boyfriend lives there FREE, so his whole income is just mad money...

It would be like getting a 1K raise a month.

We DO WASTE way to much money on the welfare projects. It should NOT be enough money to exist on, and should NOT be allowed to last more than two years.

When my boys were born (twins) we had a house-hold income of $18k a year and I made to much to get any assistance to get us started. If I wasn't white, I would have gotten that assistance.

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