As for the gas tax holiday, petrol prices have been rising steeply lately, so politicians have proposed to suspend the tax on it for the summer. Yes, it's shameless pandering to voters--a band-aid solution for a severed limb problem.
I think I've spent too much time online--I just spent too long debating whether you mean "Yank" in the sense that Southerners mean it or the sense that Brits mean it.
Actually, coming from a military family, I've never had much sense of regional identity, though I do have a lot of nostalgia for the midwest.
Um. I meant to choose "A stupid idea proposed by people with a shaky grasp of economics" for BOTH poll answers. Please to be ignoring what looks like a stupid answer. :P
I didn't put one cent of that money back into the economy, and I don't know anyone else personally who did, either. It funded my $1000 emergency fund. The remaining $200 went towards paying off our credit card.
I already bought what I had planned to buy with the economic stimulus package money, though I haven't gotten the economic stimulus check yet. I should get it around July 4. I'm not sure that I'll spend the money "again" though. It'll probably go into my emergency fund savings, given I still don't have a permanent job. Maybe by then I'll know if I will though. I sure hope so.
It really galls me that the proposed solution to a problem caused by out-of-control debt is to encourage people to spend more, and it gladdens my heart to hear how many people are using it to pay down their debt instead.
I also wonder how much overlap there is between those hurt most by the slowing economy (sub-prime mortgage holders, the unemployed, etc.) and those who receive stimulus checks.
Nah, I didn't read the whole story. I just thought something like, "Whoa, Cheney and I agree on something? Must be the apocalypse. Which would make him happy, I suppose."
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As for the gas tax holiday, petrol prices have been rising steeply lately, so politicians have proposed to suspend the tax on it for the summer. Yes, it's shameless pandering to voters--a band-aid solution for a severed limb problem.
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(lol) :DDD:
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Actually, coming from a military family, I've never had much sense of regional identity, though I do have a lot of nostalgia for the midwest.
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I didn't put one cent of that money back into the economy, and I don't know anyone else personally who did, either. It funded my $1000 emergency fund. The remaining $200 went towards paying off our credit card.
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I also wonder how much overlap there is between those hurt most by the slowing economy (sub-prime mortgage holders, the unemployed, etc.) and those who receive stimulus checks.
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All of America should become an hero.
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