[Arryn]

Originally posted by vigabrand:
I think you missed my point Arryn. The refund was not big, but everyone got one, not just the rich. It was our money to begin with and for the middle class, every little bit helps.

It's utter foolishness that, when you are already in debt up to your eyeballs, you incur more debt just to make yourself feel good. Which is just what the tax cuts accomplished. The government owed money before the cuts; it had already been spent, and the money for the cuts has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is taxpayers, and the debt must eventually be paid. If not by us, then our children, or their children. And the longer you take to pay a debt, the more money it costs you.

BTW, if you look at the numbers, the Iraq war is costing taxpayers about the same amount of money as the tax cuts. So not only is the government borrowing money it doesn't have to pay back taxpayers, it's borrowing even more money to pay for a war that the pre-tax cut budget hadn't accounted for. IOW, the Bushies have dug the hole twice (or more) as deep. A hole that need not have been dug at all.

If you want a tax cut, get your Congresscritters to stop SPENDING our money.