How do people who DON’T pay taxes, become eligible for a TAX REFUND?
February 2, 2009 by Tax Forum
Filed under Questions & Answers
elmar66 asked:
The liberals have gone mad, 30% of the people who will receive a tax refund in the stimulous package DON’T pay taxes!!!
The liberals have gone mad, 30% of the people who will receive a tax refund in the stimulous package DON’T pay taxes!!!
I guess if they didn’t get the 30% included they would have screamed about more tax cuts for the rich right?
So suddenly now the liberals consider anyone with a job who pays taxes as rich?
WRONG Mild…..30% of the people included in the stimulous plan will receive money and they DON’T pay ANY income tax.
Read it….
Tom Humes on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 9:51 pm
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Mild Irritant on Thu, 5th Feb 2009 5:57 pm
They DO pay taxes – it’s that nasty deduction on our paychecks.
They are just getting it back.
Brooke22365 on Thu, 5th Feb 2009 6:44 pm
Mild, if you pay $1,000 and get $1,000 back, you don’t pay taxes!
Sky on Thu, 5th Feb 2009 7:58 pm
No. I think that you misunderstand what’s going on. The so-called liberals want an even spread of the tax rebate money–so that the majority does not go to the rich and big business.
I am disappointed that those who have suffered long-term unemployed and those on limited food stamp money aren’t being offered assistance as well.
It would make things a little easier for them; considering how expensive food as gotten. (And please don’t tell me that it *hasn’t*. Because I know you know better than that.)
vtjames7433 on Fri, 6th Feb 2009 11:37 am
As a person that already gets back other peoples money in the form of earned income and child tax credits, I think it is wrong. They have to throw bones to the non tax payers in order to buy votes and that is all it is. For the person above me, just because it comes out of our check doesnt mean we actually pay it- example- low income worker A has $800 taken out of his check over the year and at tax time he gets back $800= no taxes paid or maybe he has kids and gets earned income and child tax credit so a check for $3800 back= $3000 of someone elses money. I am thankful for the money but have NEVER felt it was mine or was owed to me- that is what is wrong with America and our politician perpetuate it
For the other person that mentioned unemployment- blame the dems because the republicans were willing to do it if it was limited to areas with above average unemployment- meaning that if you were in an area with 3% unemployment, we shouldnt be paying your lazy **** but if you were in a place with 6% or 8%, there may be a legitimate reason and we’d help.
As far as welfare and foodstamps, I know each state is different but here, food stamps buy a lot more groceries than I can afford each mth- FACT
Bjorn on Mon, 9th Feb 2009 8:43 pm
It’s because those people who don’t pay taxes still pay for Social Security and Medicare.
While it may seem crazy to you, giving these people money when they didn’t pay in, it will help in the long run.
Think about it, you give someone who makes $100,000 a year a check for $600. What are they going to do with it?
They are probably not going to spend it, and that is what the government wants to be done with the money.
Give that same $600 to someone who makes $7000 a year and I guarantee you that money will be spent in a week.
Sure, it does not seem fair. But this is not about fairness, it’s about stimulating the economy.
Lou on Wed, 11th Feb 2009 12:22 am
You have to belong to same certain group of people that applied for loans, the loan officer was afraid to say no, and now they can’t pay. That group you know.
socrates on Fri, 13th Feb 2009 12:36 am
By being the people who are most likely to spend that money immediately (probably on something silly like rent or food). In all the slamming from the right that goes to those no good, lazy, unemployed so and sos who have the audacity to be poor, the cons and neo cons miss something important: U.S. citizens are more valuable to the global economy as consumers than they are as workers. Cut off all funding to the poor and who’s going to shop at Wal Mart for the DVDs and PlayStation games? Workers don’t have the time or money to hang around eating Doritos. I know I don’t.
Cookies Anyone? on Sun, 15th Feb 2009 3:34 pm
I am disappointed that those who have suffered long-term unemployed and those on limited food stamp money aren’t being offered assistance as well.
Aren’t Unemployment Compensation and Food Stamps, assistance???
I don’t get it….I don’t pay taxes either, but that is by choice…..do I get monies I never put in, too??
Edit: U.S. citizens are more valuable to the global economy as consumers than they are as workers. Cut off all funding to the poor and who’s going to shop at Wal Mart for the DVDs and PlayStation games?
Wow, did you take Economics?? The monies spent are yours and mine. A worker produces goods AND makes his OWN money….and doesn’t utilize mine.
Answerman on Wed, 18th Feb 2009 8:01 pm
Sorry Bjorn! Wrong again! I guess you just stole my new Ipod I was going to buy! Not that I’m asking for sympathy…but this whole rob Peter and give to Paul sickens me. All of the discussions on the boards since the news broke is comical. Everyone’s got their hand out.
Me…frankly…Bjorn might be right. I’m going to pay down my credit card and hunker down for a nasty recession anyway. Either way…if I save or pay my card down…its keeping the companies, banks and my credit in tact.
No More Whining…PULEEZ
Bleh! on Fri, 20th Feb 2009 2:59 pm
Not exactly true and I don’t believe that 30% crap. Give 1 example of your facts
Just speaking the truth... on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 11:23 pm
This should explain a lot…
Parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper TRADITIONAL VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
*****MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, It’s Not Easy Being Green.
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer!
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case…..and,…..
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be very careful how you vote in 2008.
brandy w on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 10:07 am
i don’t pay taxes but i need that money. we barely make anything. is it fair that people who make 175000 dollars a year should get extra money or the people who need it. i have three kids i need it more than they do