What’s Your Vote Worth?
Posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 1:42pm by Don Rogers in Economy, General, Politics
How much is your vote worth? Apparently to the folks in Washington, its worth about $500 of your own money. In an apparent effort to boost public opinion and make themselves feel good, Congress and the President have offered up a $150 Billion “Economic Stimulus Package“. The key feature of this Bill basically takes the money that we pay in taxes and give us back a little bit of it, and also passes some of that money to people that don’t pay taxes. Think of the sixteen year olds with part-time jobs, that are going to get that new iPod from your taxes! The politicians will then crow about the great deal they gave us taxpayers and spout rhetoric on the great job they are doing up on Capitol Hill. Hmmm, must be an election year!
We keep getting told about how taxes must be raised and spending cut to lower the budget, so not to leave a big debt to our children. Then the government turns around and wants to spend even more money on a program that will do little or nothing to improve the lot of the common man. As is, the “Emergency” funds will take months to arrive in your mailbox, what a waste.
Keep your ?!@#@ check, lower my taxes, fix my roads, repair our crumbling infrastructure. Added lanes and better roads would do more to boost productivity and the economy than this useless program. We need to work to eliminate the congestion that is eating up our national productivity. How many hours do you sit in traffic? Think how much more you could make if you had those wasted hours back. $150 Billion could go a long way toward some much needed fixes.
This bill still has to go through the Senate, but it is definitely fast-tracked. They are trying to cram it through before everyone comes to their senses and realizes what is going on. Election year politics at its worse! Call your Senator, tell him or her that we can’t afford this kind of feel-good politics, tell them you don’t care to pay taxes so that people that don’t can get a few hundred bucks of your money. Tell them that you could do a better job of stimulating the economy by keeping that money in your own pocket.
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Its just as I said it was in my post earlier. It is an election year and the current sitting president’s economic policy is crumbling at his feet. He is feeling all kinds of pressure from his party because of the election and he is now “Cooking The Books” to Window dress the economy in the advent of the coming election. If something real and intelligent doesn’t happen with our economy soon, we will be in one of the biggest recessions ever seen in this country. It may be too late already, think about it for a minute, if it takes a new president years to get the economy feeling their impact, how long will we have to suffer this ones?
The really bad thing is this is not coming out of the US taxes this is going to be a loan from somewhere else that will need to be paid back.As it stands each man woman an child in the us owes $440,000 usd an we are going to be happy to get about a $500.00usd advance that will be taxed.
Indiana is trying to pass an id card that will cost $$ the tax payer/voter. looks like the stakes are going up,if the law passes you cant vote without it.
after the voting mess this year we need to some how make sure who’s voting how many times.The clean up needs to go to the people that got voted for I’m not sure any of then in office got elected.