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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Byron Dorgan: Tax Rebates Must Include Disabled Veterans, Seniors

And if you oppose including them, you’ll obviously be accused of hating disabled veterans and senior citizens.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said the rebate checks that are being proposed as part of Congress’ economic stimulus package must include rebates for senior citizens and disabled veterans. Both were left out of the version of the stimulus package negotiated by the White House and leaders of the U.S. House.

Dorgan said he’ll work to defeat a threatened filibuster against an alternate plan that would include the two groups.

Dorgan said the decision on whether to include seniors is especially important to North Dakota, which has the highest per-capita number of senior citizens over 85 years of age in the nation. The proposal to include seniors would ensure rebate checks go to an estimated 88,000 North Dakotans age 65 and older.

“Many senior citizens live on very low incomes. If we’re going to try to stimulate the economy, it would be wrong to provide rebates to 117 million Americans and leave out some 20 million senior citizens, many of whom would very much need those rebate checks,” Dorgan said.

If all of these politicians are going to insist on giving “tax rebates” to people who pay little or no federal taxes, while simultaneously opposing giving those very same rebates to more affluent Americans who pay a lot of federal taxes, can we just be honest and start calling these “rebates” what they are?

Which is a big, fat handout from the government aimed at buying the love of a citizenry that isn’t exactly happy with our political leadership in general.

Comments

What about tax rebates for us tall people who must suffer dealing with short doorways?

Kevin on January 31, 2008 at 09:19 pm

What I don’t get about the whole “tax rebate handouts for seniors” is why do they need handouts?  If they don’t work, how are they effected?  They certainly aren’t in danger of losing their jobs.

The only possible issue is if they refinanced their homes with ARMs, which is kinda dumb for a person on a fixed income to do.  To those in this situation, takeout a reverse mortgage and enjoy the fact that I go to work everyday so that 15% of my income can get diverted to you.

These folks have already raised kids and have had their entire lives to pay off their houses & mortgages.  Now they get free retirement borne on the backs of today’s workers.

electnixon on February 1, 2008 at 06:45 am

Hey Byron, we’re a one-world community, shouldn’t everybody in the world get a “rebate” check.

Why does he hate the rest of the world.


""That’s the problem with you lefties, you’re not willing to get your hands dirty. I’d suggest you roll up your sleeves.”

-Jack Bauer

Hoss on February 1, 2008 at 07:41 am

If all of these politicians are going to insist on giving “tax rebates” to people who pay little or no federal taxes,

A lot of people even though they pay “little or no federal taxes”, they pay other types of federal taxes including the payroll taxes.
If not a penny of those taxes goes to the treasury to be spent the same way “federal taxes” are spent, I would agree with you. If all money collected by the federal government goes to the same pot than your argument has no merit.

ellinas on February 1, 2008 at 08:24 am

A lot of people even though they pay “little or no federal taxes”, they pay other types of federal taxes including the payroll taxes.

That’s the SS and Medicare “trust fund.”
Gaylord Conrad would have a coronary if that was touched!

Kevin on February 1, 2008 at 10:20 am

That’s the SS and Medicare “trust fund.”
Gaylord Conrad would have a coronary if that was touched!
Kevin on February 1, 2008 at 10:20 am

Kevin are you absolutely sure that this “trust fund” is real? Please look it up. If it is separate from the US budget then it should not affect the budget.
I think that the so called SS and medicare fund also funds other things too.

ellinas on February 1, 2008 at 10:52 am

Kevin are you absolutely sure that this “trust fund” is real? Please look it up.

I’m pretty sure that Kevin used quotation marks to indicate that the trust fund is not real.

If it is separate from the US budget then it should not affect the budget.
I think that the so called SS and medicare fund also funds other things too.

The trust fund was broken by Johnson to pay for his “Great Society”.

This a problem engineered and caused by socialist Democrats. Please look that up.

likwidshoe on February 2, 2008 at 12:02 am

Maybe so likwidshoe.  But can you say with certainty that payroll taxes are not used for general budget purposes? Like pay the interest on the US debt?

ellinas on February 2, 2008 at 08:56 pm
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How about giving everyone the exact same tax rebates, then we don’t have anything to complain about.

scooter on May 14, 2008 at 12:05 am

Forty percent of the adult population don’t pay ANY income tax.
You can’t rebate something that was never “bated” to begin with.

Kevin on May 14, 2008 at 08:12 am
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