04-28-2008, 12:51 PM | #42 (permalink) | |
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Location: reykjavík, iceland
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i suspect i might have one as well. i never see the other end of my paycheck as it seems to be all gone by the time i get there.
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04-29-2008, 06:11 AM | #44 (permalink) |
Who You Crappin?
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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it's not a rebate from last year's taxes
it's a rebate on THIS year's taxes in other words, a family of four will be getting $1600 NOW, but $1600 less next year. most people don't know this, and will be fucked come April 2009 |
04-29-2008, 07:10 AM | #45 (permalink) |
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Location: Kittyville
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It's going to be used to pay the interest on my school loans that are accumulating as we speak, so that the interest doesn't capitalize, and I owe less overall.
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04-29-2008, 07:10 AM | #46 (permalink) | ||
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Location: Oregon
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04-29-2008, 08:11 AM | #47 (permalink) | |
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I heard this also. From someone who does taxes for a living. |
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04-29-2008, 08:50 AM | #48 (permalink) |
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Location: Where morons reign supreme
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We'll be paying off our new computer.
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04-29-2008, 06:33 PM | #50 (permalink) |
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Location: tentative, at best
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I'll follow The Plan exactly as it was laid out - From me to the government; from the government back to me; then I give it back to the real government (Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, et al).
You didn't really think the price-gouging and the Impetus Check timing was coincidental, did you? As Bill Maher said recently (paraphrased), "I'm no conspiracy theorist, but If Colonel Sanders was President, and the price of chicken tripled during his administration, somebody might start asking some questions, right?"
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04-29-2008, 07:15 PM | #51 (permalink) |
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Irony.
If I didn't work on a new bussines venture, I'd have made to much money and not qualified. But because I did, I took a large hit to my income (by over 50%) got a ginormous tax refund since I paid on my higher level of income which I didn't have anymore, and then qualified for the rebate. Had I actually just paid all that money into the government I wouldn't have gotten anything back. Screwy system that they decide you make to much to get a refund on what you put in. Anyways all that being said it just goes into (along with the refund) the warchest to keep the new business afloat until it can break even on its own.
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04-29-2008, 07:38 PM | #53 (permalink) | ||
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It is not rebate on 07 taxes....its more like a "prebate" on '08 taxes, but based on your '07 tax return. And there will be another form to attach to your 1040 next year. Quote:
But maybe I have it wrong. In any case, I'm not getting a check...so I have no stake in it.
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04-30-2008, 05:34 AM | #54 (permalink) | |
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Location: on the back, bitch
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This was done a couple years back, when families were getting checks of $400 per child; the following year, the dependent child deduction, which was about $3000, was reduced by $400. So come next year's filing, if that child deduction was to be $3000 per, it'd be reduced by $300 per and your own allowance reduced by $600. |
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04-30-2008, 06:09 AM | #55 (permalink) |
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Location: West Michigan
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Were getting a new couch for our new house. Hubbies getting an Ipod phone and the rest will go in savings. It will help to get our small balance back up to where it was before this winter's heating costs led to us slowly "borrowing" from ourselves to pay the bills. That was with a brand new 97% high efficiency furnace.
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04-30-2008, 06:21 AM | #56 (permalink) |
Submit to me, you know you want to
Location: Lilburn, Ga
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I wish we were getting ours.....but since we are on a payment plan for 2006 taxes, they are taking it to pay that off I could really use that 1200 in one chunck instead of having an extra 75 bucks a month.
Oh well
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04-30-2008, 12:51 PM | #57 (permalink) | |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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We cook on the grill(in the dead of winter), had the thermostat on a constant 64, I take 8 minute showers and chase the kids out after 10, hang laundry on a line to dry and never do laundry in warm water. Yet, we still got hit so bad that last summer, they shut off our electric. News reports are all over this rebate as being not so much as the "Economic Stimulus" it was purported to be but just a panacea to help with bills, the most prevalent being utility and credit cards. No increase in conspicuous consumption will be evident. |
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05-06-2008, 04:28 AM | #60 (permalink) |
Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side
Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.
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gonna bank half of it and blow the rest of it on a new bike (for the wife) a new 22 LCD widescreen monitor (for me, already got it and its SWEEEEEEET) and whatever the kidlet decides on getting (probably 6 month of WoW)
http://www.sceptre.com/Products/LCD/...x22hg_Naga.htm
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05-08-2008, 05:59 PM | #64 (permalink) | |
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05-11-2008, 05:09 AM | #66 (permalink) |
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Location: Florida
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I bought an LCD TV for my bedroom.
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05-11-2008, 04:48 PM | #68 (permalink) | |
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Location: Where morons reign supreme
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05-11-2008, 07:56 PM | #69 (permalink) |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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We bought a new fridge. When we got the deposit, I took what equals one week's pay from it, paid some bills, put the rest in the bank for a fridge and a new floor...
Well, the store offers a 3 month, 0 interest store card, so I took it, put the fridge on it. It'll cost 250 a month, less than I put into the savings anyway, so we won't lose it and we won't have to pay any interest on the purchase. I can still get the kitchen floor and not make much of a dent in the savings. Thanks, Uncle Sam. You made my passbook look purty. |
05-12-2008, 10:23 PM | #72 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Swamp Lagoon, North Cackalacky
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Apparently, the US economy doesn't require my economic stimulation this year. The designated date for mine has come and gone, with no "rebate" arriving.
Which, honestly, sucks for me right now... then again, I might be laughing at all y'all in a years' time.
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05-14-2008, 05:16 PM | #73 (permalink) | |
Groovy Hipster Nerd
Location: Michigan
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Seagate FreeAgent Go 120 GB USB External Hard Drive Belkin Neoprene Armband for Zune Zune Car Pack v2 Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica (have not seen this series yet!) And now I wonder what I will do with the remaining $100. Any suggestions? |
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05-14-2008, 05:20 PM | #74 (permalink) |
Fancy
Location: Chicago
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Well, we were saving it for the Chicago move. But then JJ's camera broke. Bummer.
The whole thing went to a new camera. Good for him, not so much for our cushion. Luckily, everything has been cheaper so far for the move.
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05-14-2008, 05:29 PM | #75 (permalink) |
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Location: New York
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Road trip next month for vacation. Start in New York, drive to Smoky Mountains, spend a couple days there, then 2-3 days driving back north on Blue Ridge Parkway. Then visit some parks and civil war monuments in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and back home. All in 10 days or less.
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05-14-2008, 05:57 PM | #76 (permalink) | |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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If you got a tax refund and it was auto-deposited, the rebate is as well. Banks won't send notices about the deposit, either. Even if you did not qualify, a letter would have been sent stating so. |
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05-15-2008, 01:09 PM | #78 (permalink) |
Addict
Location: Land of the puny, wimpy states
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How will I be using my What, now?
Apparently, my check is stimulating the Federal Reserve. I can't actually SEE if they're stimulated, as I'm bent over. But judging from the rectal pain, I'll just assume that they are, in fact, stimulated.
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05-15-2008, 01:12 PM | #79 (permalink) | |
Living in a Warmer Insanity
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05-18-2008, 06:52 AM | #80 (permalink) | |
A Storm Is Coming
Location: The Great White North
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