Some Parents Question Wisdom of Tax Cuts

The Citizen ^ | 7-27-03 | DAVID CRARY-AP

[SuziQ]

"I'd rather have the public services and the public schools have the money they need," said Jean Powers, 41, a mother of two from Beaverton, Ore. "I'm not happy with it."

What an idiot!She could take the money, buy some educational materials with it, teach her own kids (even after school cause they're probably gonna need it no matter HOW much money the school gets) and use the rest to do for herself and her family!

[Vesuvian]

Bravo! You should send that in to a newspaper as a letter to the editor. Maybe it will wake some of the sheeple out of their stupor.

[Mr.Clark]

It's posts like this that scare me. Look how readily people are to just trust their money to the government like the good slaves they are. Please, I'm too stupid to spend it, give it to someone else oh all knowing welfare state!

[Kudsman]

excluded from the credit because they don't pay enough federal income tax"

LOL. Thx for the correction. I knew I could count on some FRiends to accurately dissect the PC and enlightened adjectives and adverbs that the Libs like to use as qualifiers to fit the message of the agenda.

What Libs really mean to say is they (the ever beneficent,bleeding heart,nothing is fair till we all feel equal pain, courtesy of the government crowd) will be the ones to say who pays enough!! How dare the citizenry have a say in what is fair taxation for fair representation!!! What are you going to do? Have a Tea Party for crying out loud. [/sarcasm]

BTW it is my opinion that alot of Representatives ain't been representing Americans a whole lot lately. We are getting pretty tangled up with the UN and UNESCO again. :-(

[edsheppa]

Hey, thanks for the laughs!

[Kudsman]

Have you been hanging around unspun again? You are starting to communicate alike. :-))

[Kudsman]

I hear ya. Now make sure the neighbors do please. Thanks.

[Kudsman]

I've got another one that I can't seem to find a URL for online. Its hardcopy in my local Sunday paper but I've searched for story, Author, AP wire, Washington Post online and have come up empty. Its a feel good article with this quip. A gay rights advocacy group hailed the nuptials notice in the Post as the first announcement of a legally recognized married same sex couple in a major US newspaper. The announcement appeared in Wednesday's "Engagement,Weddings and Anniversaries" section.

I wish I could find the article. If anyone can help I would appreciate your assistance in sharing it with our Freepers. The author is Jennifer C. Kerr and it is AP wire.

[Republican Wildcat]

"I'd rather have the public services and the public schools have the money they need," said Jean Powers, 41, a mother of two from Beaverton, Ore. "I'm not happy with it."

An obvious product of the public school system. No concept of basic economics or public policy. Hey, lady. If you don't want the money: DONATE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE. Good grief. Patheticly stupid.

[Republican Wildcat]

It's amazing how ignorant those people are, and also the ignorance of this so-called newsreporter who wrote this piece of garbage. No concept whatsoever of basic economics and public policy.

[Night Hides Not]

I can hardly wait for the screaming and gnashing of teeth next year when the next round of tax cuts are debated!

How can I say this? I actually believed my Congressman, Pete Sessions, when my family and I met him in his office about a month ago.

When I thanked him for his vote on the most recent round of tax cuts, he said 'there's more coming'. He understands that it's going to take a sustained fiscal effort to get this economy back on track.

As for our share of the tax credit, my wife has already spent it....whoodathunkit?

Honey...I was only kidding...POW...WHAP...OUCH!!!

Actually, we used the proceeds to cover our lodging bills from vacation.

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This article is so slanted I have to lay down to read it. In the first place, there's no limit to the amount of taxes a person can pay. If these brainwashed socialists want to send the check back, or simply not cash it, that's their perogative. Secondly, I've never met a single person who has this "take" of being saddened by getting some of their own money back. And finally, Congress didn't give us anything - the money was taken from the checks of people who have jobs. This is also known as stealing. The thing we should do at this point is demand that congress stop taking our money.

[Kudsman]

The thing we should do at this point is demand that congress stop taking our money.

Agreed. And the other thing we have to do is tell the Government to quit raising the bar as to who is classified poor. Poorness is a subjective state IMO. It is up to the one affixing the label what being poor constitutes. To the Libs that like to play class warfare someone earning $26,000 is poor. Cash welfare, food, housing, health care, utilities, transportation, even "weatherization" of homes is paid by taxpayers to freeloaders (along with the Government salaries of the "providers"). All these (and any benis i forgot) add up to $26,000 and beyond. So why would an entry level position where you had to pass a drug/sobriety test and maintain regular attendance sound attractive? Especially when you have communist enablers speaking on the floor of the House and Senate about giving more of other people's money to you for doing squat! I guess they figure they need a raise. After all cigarette and booze taxes are rising as fast as the price of good paying instant Lotto jackpots. Not to mention the Indians are building this nice new "sovereign" casino to feed this new enslaving vice. ;-)

[exDemMom]

"I'm tired of working hard and still not being able to provide properly for my children," she said. "I'm tired of having to choose canned vegetables instead of fresh ones. I feel I don't count, my kids don't count."

Why can't she grow her own vegetables and freeze or can them herself? Not very enterprising, is she?

[staytrue]

the low-income parents not receiving the checks _ notably those who earn less than roughly $26,000 and are excluded from the credit because they don't pay enough federal income tax.

I would like to add that the high-income parents not receiving the checks _ notably those who earn more than roughly $110,000 and are excluded from the credit even though they pay a mind boggling amount of income tax.

[Mad_at_Taxes]

Reading this article made me so very mad. I can't believe we have let this get so out of hand. I hope W's 2nd term brings some real tax reform.

I just want to scream at these people, "You are stealing from me, becuase you think you deserve the fruits of my labor and some liberal in Washington agrees."

[Kudsman]

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See what happens when we get mad and scream. We say things we don't mean. LOL. To borrow a lib phrase I feel your pain.

I do it all the time too. Its not that series. ;-)

[Kudsman]

BTW welcome to the land of FReepers.

[Kudsman]

I hope W's 2nd term brings some real tax reform.

What ya got in mind partner?

[Spyder]

They completely leave those off who question the tax cuts because they cut off at $110K. Those making about that amount are almost totally cut out of any scholarship availability for their kids, they pay the bulk of the taxes, and they leave them out of it... I'll bet they're even more displeased about not getting a refund.