Goverment asks to pay now or pay later

Betcha a dollar if Mr. Zimmermann received one of those $600 checks last year he didn't write a letter to the government asking them to keep that check. However, I am glad to read that Mr. Zimmermann earns enough income so that he may be taxed on his Social Security income next year. Some folks should be so lucky. GGpap

GGpap...the $600 check was a return of money that the taxpayer already paid, NOT a hand out.

Abdullah, Republicans had no problems with anything done by the previous administration. I say again, if God was a Democrat, you'd refuse salvation!

Abdullah, also, why don't you mention that Dubby BORROWED all that money from China? Why don't you mention the 1.3 trillion alone that he added to the US debt? You scream about what Obama is doing to fix the problems the past 8 years have dealt to us, but never said a word while it happened.

Copperhead, you continue to tell the same lie every time you post. All responsible people had problems with Bush. The left hated that he defended the country and the right hated that he wasn't fiscally responsible. If God was a Dem, he'd abort himself.

Copperhead, also, why don't you just post "well, Bush did it so Obama can do a lot more of it". It'll save you from trying to cover for the Mad Marxist with every post. By the way, Bush is out of office.

Mr Zimmerman, Obama only promised tax cuts you could count on. He never promised you'd be allowed to keep the tax cuts. With just a little awareness, you'll see this type of deception through out the tax system under this administration. It's called Dem politics.

No, PT, unfortunately, I won't. What I do say is that it's what has to be done to fix the problems that politicians of your ilk have done. Defend the country? OMG! Please! If he'd defended the country, he wouldn't have gone to Iraq, and he'd have caught bin Laden in 8 years. Saddam didn't attack the country, after all. Yes, Bush is no longer in office, but the consequences will live long after him.

As Obama turns our economy into one that is strong for the future, our return on our investment will more than pay for his strategy of pulling us out of this depression created by the right-wing, and bitterly fought to maintain by them as well.

Mr Zimmerman O-CRAP knows that the right-wing will do the right thing and go ahead and have more taxes taken out of their PAYCHECK,SS CHECK,DIVIDEND CHECKS OR WHATEVER THEIR INCOME is, but the LEFT_WING will only sit back wanting to know where their hand-out is ? Once again the RIGHT-WING will be paying the way for everyone!

Okay, don't then Copperhead. Just thought I'd suggest a paraphrase to save you from parroting the long drawn out excuses for this president. Actually, you're a good student. CNN is proud of you.

shivas, you can reduce the length of your post by typing, "yeah, what he said".

When we got the checks from W we didn't have our tax withdrawls cut in half. Cutting them in half is a short term savings that will bite you in the butt come time for tax returns because you are still going to be taxed at the pre-existing rate. Once again another stunt to pull the wool over the eyes of the simpletons that got him elected. Look what he's done, he's such a good boy. Why should we expect him to be any different than the people that put him in office, spend spend spend its only money and we can do it three times as fast as the previous clown because we are the DEMS and they aren't. Spend Spend Spend.Responsibility is someone else's problem.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/24/20040624-112921-3401r/ Sorry to be the one to inform the uninformed, but someone needs to do it. People just don't want to believe that Saddam Hussein/Iraq were linked to Al Queda/Bin Laden.

Seven years of Clown College down the drain.

The lefties will never read the article you linked to Ethel. It's not in the NYTimes or the LATimes. Maybe when the "bed cover urination crew" gets up they'll link to it.

Would you stop this stupid childish fight over who is better: dems or repubs? They're both idiots. Enough said!

Plus, if you analyze Bush, he held many democratic beliefs, so you should be bashing democratic beliefs rather than the republicans. Bush may have represented them, but his beliefs were not repub.

And what depression, shivas? Go back to the freaking 1930s if you wish to see depression.

Passing on debt to our "grandchildren" is a favorite and common statement these days. Who really cares? posted by Justus4 at 7;55am. You must not have any children Justtus4 (thank God). Do you even read previous post? It's been explained before. The money under Bush was a rebate on taxes you already paid in, therefore not having to pay it back when you filed your taxes. With the money we're receiving under Obama, most individuals will be required to pay this money back come April 2010. What is sad is there will be individuals who are not aware of this and will be surprised come tax time. What a rude awakening. We may see a slight improvement in the economy right now but give it about a year, things are going to come crashing down again.

talkatoast, you have to lol at shivas, this is his norm. Depression, sure!! The only thing depressing is these darn cold dice I'm throwing in Vegas.

Ethel, thanks for that link, very informative.

I am still wondering how "W" saved us all during the last 8 years. I didn't see him in uniform. As for security, recently I have been traveling thru Ft G and what a laugh the security is. They have armed guards checking cars and ID cards at every gate and slalom courses for getting "off" post while at the same time, not 100 yards away is miles of unprotected fence line that any moron would cross if they wanted to. Now is that what we call security? I am sure they(the bobes) are proud of their actions, but their security is like the "kings new suit), it just isn't there and if there were terrorists around, we would have known it a long time ago.

Mr Zimmerman, What is wrong with your grandchildren, and great grandchildren, paying their share to come into a world, that others have been paying taxes, all their working lives? sOUTHERN08,So what if terriost are already in this country? Are you scared?If they strike, we will do the same thing, the people in Iraq did, when we attacked them, some of us will die!

1941, you might want to consider deleting that one.

The $250 we will be receiving soon will have to be paid back at tax time 2010. They realized this is not feasible so why bother to send them out. People will have spent this money and for some it will be hard to pay it back. We had to pay taxes on our Social Security anyway. Even though they take taxes out of retirement checks it's never enough, so I make quarter payments to the IRS so we may break even and not have to pay a large amount when filing. SusieQ

Gacop: The debt under Bush gerw aound $5 trillion, not $1.3 trillion. ethel: All the five year old article you posted (glad you like to follow the Moonies) shows is that Clinton was wrong as well. He used the flawed intelligence to conduct bombings in Afghansistan and Sudan. "Officials later acknowledged, however, "that the evidence that prompted President Clinton to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as first portrayed. Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s". Al Queda was in Afghanistan, so the bombing there was justified. The bombing of the pharmaceutical factory in Sudan was a mistake. Clinton used faulty intelligence and was responsible for the killing of a few hundred Sudanese. W used it to overthrow a regime and is resposible for the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and the wounding of tens of thousands more, not to mention the deaths of over 100 thousand Iraqis and an unknown number of wounded.