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Under the new tax rebate program, some people who pay no taxes at all get a rebate; and the people who pay the most taxes get no rebate at all.  WTF? UPDATE: Everyone who makes more than $3,000 a year will get a tax rebate.  Isn't that groups a lot of teenagers and others who don't have serious jobs?  Let's run some simple math. Minimum wage is $5.85.  A person working a minimum-wage job full time who took two weeks of vacation would make $11,700.  A person who works 20 hours each week in a minimum wage job for 50 weeks out of the year would earn $5,850. So the rebate can't truly be directed at the working poor.  Rather, Nancy Pelosi simply wanted to give more taxpayer money to people who contributed nothing to the federal coffers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).