Tax Rebate 2008
Feb 22nd, 2008 by Shaun Carter
The tax rebate that most American’s are expecting to arrive sometime this year will hopefully spur the economy, my check will not. I don’t plan on spending my tax rebate, instead putting the full amount ($600 as I calculate it) toward paying down student loan debt and boosting my savings.
But, many people will be spending that check the moment they get it in their hands, or worse, they’ve already begun charging extra to their credit cards and plan to use the upcoming rebate to pay it back. The worst example a person can have for their own personal spending habits is the Federal government, an organization that willfully spends far more than it takes in every year. So when the government sends me money and President Bush tells me to spend it, I’m definitely not going to listen.
Call my actions un-American or un-patriotic and I won’t care, because anyone taking money lessons from the government deserves what they get. The thing that bugs me is that the government then bails these individuals out at the expense of the more intelligent budgeters of this country.
So what are you going to do with your rebate? If you do decide to spend it, please do the right thing and buy a good or service that was derived solely from the United States, that is the only way to make your purchase fully count toward our economy and its recovery.
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