BigShoes

Let’s cut to the chase and call it like it is. Government is evil. They spawn evil plans that waste time and money and degrade the human race. These tax rebates are the devil in disguise I’m sure, so hold onto your purses ladies, take control of your stimulus payment now.

It started out as a simple plan to stimulate the economy. Our country borrows money (we need to borrow money?) from another country to give us money to stimulate the economy via a tax rebate, which analysts say is not enough but that is a discussion for another day.

Anyway, so we’re getting some money. Now trying to figure out when and how you will get your money is more difficult than finding out how far the earth is from the moon. I read the plan, something about the last two digits of my social security number and how I filed and oops they left off the small print and now TurboTax and whomever have to re-explain how you get your money based on how you filed with them.

I’ve heard tell that over 50,000 phone calls a day are calling the IRS to check on their tax rebate checks…a gift of money really, by the way would you call your grandmother up and ask her when your birthday card with the $20 was coming? I didn’t think so. Thanks for helping raise the cost of your gift if you called.

But, in all fairness, we are all entitled to a portion of the gift and you think the government would explain the tax rebate better, since they have our full attention and we might be missing the cost per barrel of oil during this fiasco…okay, maybe not. Besides I know we all need it, I need it, but the Administration and Congress is said to have “underestimated the need for cash in most US homes because they did not see inflation coming.” I must be clairvoyant because I saw it coming.

So you can go visit the IRS Where’s My Stimulus Payment. I’ve heard it isn’t very helpful but you can visit it and go through the exercise a few times before you become one of the 50,000 a day callers to the IRS that tries to find the answer to the question Where’s My Stimulus Payment?” But in fairness to the government this time, didn’t you read the part that says that the information about your payment won’t be available in their online system until about a week before your rebate is scheduled to be issued? I know, it should really say, I’m sorry but information on your tax rebate is only given out to mind readers who already know whent they will get their tax rebate. Okay, maybe I’m not clairvoyant.

Meanwhile, everybody who wants your money once you finally get it is really helpful. ATM’s are asking me to inquire about saving it, my church wants me to do good with it, scammers are trying to steal the tax rebate in new clever ways and the government really wants me to spend money on products from the country we borrowed it from (see Ben Stein on Glenn Beck). Can I have a show of hands from anybody who had to pay for oil with their credit card this winter?

Surveys are showing we are not going to be spending our money where the government intended. We won’t be buying cars, new clothes or electronics. I’m paying down debt and extra costs incurred due to inflation along with the rest of the tax rebate recipients.

Don’t get me wrong, the government is doing some good, dead beat parents will lose their tax rebates to pay back child support. I guess this makes up for the government denying money to filers married to someone without a social security number, including our soldiers overseas who are married to foreign spouses.

Tell me your thoughts, is this tax rebate doing anything but costing the government more time and money than it is worth? Are we going to be paying for this fiasco for the next four or more years?

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