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Economic Stimulus: The Fed’s other hand-out

Blogger’s Note: My tax advisor’s cover letter informed me that the amount of economic stimulus handouts our household qualified for was $0. Well, someone has to pay for it, eh? Millions of other U.S. households will be luckier. Households with kids stand to collect a few thousand dollars by mid-year. Plus, another big cash injection [...]

Economic Stimulus: The idiocy of government handouts

Blogger's Note: Economic Stimulus — last week, the White House turned Obama. Only instead of promising $250 bucks in pocket money, as Obama envisions will kick-start spending and economic expansion, the Bush Administration's proposed "tax rebate" is a little bit bigger. Now, we don't mind tax "rebates". When people can keep more of the money [...]

A Modest Proposal: Why give a tax rebate when you could offer “Economic Stimulus Cards” instead?

'For those who want to engineer spending, the problem is that the people who receive the funds may not decide to spend it immediately, if at all. They may, god forbid, elect to pay down existing debt or most perniciously, actually save it instead. Just recently, the Treasury Department launched a program to streamline Social [...]