Anyone blown thier stimulus check?

Chris Losinger

the US govt is sending checks to people whose income is in a certain range this month, ostensibly to "stimulate" the economy. you could also call it ridiculous election-year pandering... if you were cynical.

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Dalek Dave

Bush uses a tax bribe to help the election of the next republican president Bush Boosts the economy by handing back money already taken from the taxpayer.

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JudyL_MD

Gee, I got a whole $55 dollars. Can't stimulate much with that. <where's that cynicism smiley>

DeepToot

I paid bills with it..sorry economy my electric comes first. :^)

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Latinwiz

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daniilzol

This is US specific. GWB enacted $600 stimulus check per person this year to boost the economy. Funny thing is I do not believe for a second it will help the economy so all this measure does is borrows money from people (which they will have to repay sooner or later) to give it to people to spend NOW. Essentially this is the same as a credit card. Anyway, the problems go much deeper than measly $600 can fix.

NormDroid

I could do with a bit of finanial stimulation, I wonder if our guv will to the same:~

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Marc Clifton

I'm using it to pay debt. And a lot of that debt is to the IRS, so they probably will just apply it directly. woot. Marc

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Brady Kelly

What size cheque did you get? :omg: Or, how much did the bike cost?

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Douglas Troy

This wondrous economy has already spent that money for me.

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Bert delaVega

I had to file separate so our entire return wouldn't go to pay IRS debt, only my portion. 2002 was a bad year and I'll be paying for a long long time... :sigh:

John M Drescher

I made an extra $600 payment to my credit cards.

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JudyL_FL wrote:

Gee, I got a whole $55 dollars. Can't stimulate much with that.

You could stimulate me.

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JudyL_MD

Now here's where text is lacking. Depending on tone of voice, I have two different responses Careful, I'll have to sic' my husband on you :-D :-D _or_ Better do it now before the dollar falls any farther!! Choose the correct one

DeepToot

Ok so from the looks of it hardly anything went back into the economy..lol..I thought that would be the outcome considering gas prices and other things that went up. *steps on soap box* My personal opinion, I don't see it getting any better in the next 4 years. I don't feel comfortable with any of the candidates for Pres. (again my opinion) I feel ones a racist, the other a fake and yet another one you can't trust for anything. *steps down*

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Martin Pollard

jchigg2000 wrote:

I got mine last friday! I was headed to Chicago on a weekend vacation and did my best to stimulate the economy inside Wrigley Field! So I did my part...anyone else?

Considering the amount of driving I normally have to do in a week, the only thing that's going to be stimulated is my gas tank. :((

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JudyL_FL wrote:

Now here's where text is lacking. Depending on tone of voice, I have two different responses Careful, I'll have to sic' my husband on you :-D :-D _or_ Better do it now before the dollar falls any farther!! Choose the correct one

Well I couldn't care less about the value of the dollar and my Missus of nearly 17 years seems to think I am a camel. So you choose which one I was referring too. Off to bed now, 01:15, up in less than 6 hours to coach the soccer team, son is sick and the wife reckons he can't play. He's not dead yet, I don't see the problem.

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StevenWalsh

I havn't gotten it yet... but yeah i spent it already :) I needed my windshield replaced, and I'm going on a weekend get away with my gf so the rest is in the hotel room (with jacuzzi... yeah :) ) oh and gas...

jchigg2000

That's too bad! I got to buy a bunch of $7 beers from a ballpark vendor that probably makes more a yr than I do. My wife spent hers on a new watch and some clothes. We don't really buy things for ourselves all that often, so it was nice to have an excuse.

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Chris Losinger wrote:

whose income is in a certain range

I thought it was to all taxpayers? !@#$%^&*()

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