Discussion:Stimulus - get yours now
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| March 10, 2009 | |
| So part of the stimulus package is a 13% (or was it 18%) increase in benefits for recipients of the food stamp program . . . I mean food handout program . . . shoot, whatever it's called now. A family of three is allowed a maximum of $824 PER MONTH! (We feed a family of four on less than $150/week, and that includes most toiletries.)
It's time to reduce our fees and join the band wagon. Or keep the fees and reduce the hours. That's even better. That's what I'm going to do. Our portfolios have fallen, so it's easier to qualify on that count. Forget all this being responsible citizens. It's time to take, take, take. | |
Rgtaxservice (talk|edits) said: | 10 March 2009 |
| Stimulus, bailouts, and refundable credits will bankrupt the country. Basically it pays to be irresponsible and not work. | |
| March 10, 2009 | |
| Our stimulation is akin to that received in an electric chair. | |
| 10 March 2009 | |
| [IR 2009-20]
See the part @ the bottom: Self Prepared Returns up 18.6% from the previous year. I smell CP2000s TexCPA 12:03, 10 March 2009 (CDT) | |
RoyDaleOne (talk|edits) said: | 10 March 2009 |
| JR you have such a wide range of experiences! | |
| 10 March 2009 | |
| I agree it's the bottom 1/3 of the country that caused all this mess. Everyone knows that. It had nothing to do with the Wall Street investment banks, crooked commercial banks, billion dollar insurance companies, criminal mortgage brokers, rotten defense contractors. None of those, just that terrible criminal you see waiting at the bus stop every day: the common man. He did this. He just will not work. Just wants to take, take, take.
Barf. | |
| 10 March 2009 | |
| The problem is the same in both cases - success is punished and failure is rewarded. | |
| March 10, 2009 | |
| AEM, it's more than that . . . it's doing right is not seen as a good thing and doing wrong is not punished or worse, is rewarded. | |
| 10 March 2009 | |
| Well, let's stop kicking the little feller around like a tin can. What about those Merrill Lynch fellers who stole a bundle in bonuses after running their company into a brick wall? That sounds like a group that doesn't want to work to me. | |
| 10 March 2009 | |
| AEMCPA, conversly, duck feathers are in high demand right now for luxury bed comforters, so Down is actually UP | |
| 11 March 2009 | |
| Hawaiians must eat more. Californians only get $300 or so in food stamps per month. Heck the whole welfare package, rent, cash & food is about that much for a family of 3. | |
| March 11, 2009 | |
| Well, Joan, food does tend to cost more here ($5 gal milk on sale, $1/lb bananas), but Hawaii is quite generous with its benefits. The $824 includes a little more than a 13% increase in current benefits. (New rates start in April.) And, guess what? YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT! Or perhaps more correctly, our children and their children will be paying for it. | |
| 11 March 2009 | |
| Joan, you will not deter these people with facts. It is in the playbook of the Party of Loyal Elephants to blame everything on the fictional welfare queen of the mid-70's.
But the welfare queen of today trades on the stock exchange, she has no name, just a ticker symbol. The Elephant rememdy for all ills is trickle down economics. Make the rich richer, and it will trickle down to the poor. This was a lie in 1980, it's a lie today, and it will be a lie 20 years from now. This is nothing but Reaganomics. And such economics has reduced our country to a banana republic, with a few rich at the top, and an ever growing underclass. Some of the posters here, once they stop listening to Limbaugh and his ilk, and start doing their own research, may find that they have been unwittingly voting for their own demise. To wit "Self Prepared Returns up 18.6% from the previous year". I wonder why? Could it be that the Elephant policy of fawning over the rich for years, and destroying the middle class, is finally beginning to bear fruit in a big way? | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 11 March 2009 |
| I wish you could have heard my client yesterday as he described the relief he felt when his employer, the Thundering Herd, came through with his 1M bonus, which he felt he richly deserved for hiding his eyes last summer and fall as his clients' portfolios rushed down the toilet. Lucky good old Henry Paulson and TARP Inc. came through for him else Kaitlin and Muffy might have had to attend community college, and more luck that ML found a sucker in Bank of America to take them on.
I find it so amusing to read the dudgeon about being who've been ignored for so long getting a little help, while the looters of the past ten years keep marching on, filling the Treasury with their good old boys. Who needs food stamps when you have TARP, Paulson & Geithner. [I hear this song from Damn Yankees....'you gotta have tarp, miles and miles of tarp'] The real amusement came when he told me how late in the year he was instrumental in helping his clientele save taxes by swapping out of funds that had lost 60-80% of their value, into new funds while building a 'tax loss bank.' Of course, those new funds have lost half of that reduced value. I could not help but comment, "Is it lemonade from lemons, or in your case, lemons from lemonade.?" | |
| 11 March 2009 | |
| D&T, it takes a special talent to lose that much, that's why they're paid so well. | |
