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Typical family to get tax refund

Hey Bernick -- You sound like this was the "government's money" to begin with! You have it all backwards. It was OUR money to begin with, and the federal government is still taxing and spending far too much-- Stimulus is too kind of a word for it. Can you say, political pay-off to friends of Obama --like ACORN? The SEIU? Enviro groups? Trial Attorneys? And the Unions deserve a special award-- getting a 60% share in "Government Motors" (GM) -- ahead of preferred stockholders. Now there's a deal! Hate the attitude though that it was gov'ts money.

Where are the tea baggers? lol.

really funny anonymous....I bet you'll be the first in line with your wallet open when the country goes bankrupt....right? Taxes, whether hidden or right in the open is not the argument a good conservative makes. The argument is the government usurping powers they do NOT have and growing bigger literally every second of every day. Red and blue alike have spun a web to tangled to escape from. The U.S. government has grown larger under every president from the inception of this nation. Now some of that has to do with population growth, however, the majority its just uncontrolled growth and spending. We need the government to be more thrifty. Stop spending money we don't have. I bet most people would take a few years of hard times over a future filled with doubt and the ever growing prospect of having one of 2 things happen: 1. We become like socialized countries in the U.S with 50% or greater tax burdens 2. The Chinese call in the debts and then what.

WAAAAAH WAAAAAAH Go read Scott McClellan's book, "What Happened".
Read about real corruption, back door politics and dishonesty during the Bush years. Then come back and complain about the mere 6 months that President Obama has been truly leading the nation.
It took 8 years for the Cheney/Bush Administration to put us here when they came into power after inheriting a SURPLUS IN THE TREASURY from the Clinton years.
You want to throw mud "why not"? Throw it where it is deserved my friend. Find Dick Cheney, GW Bush and the rest of the clowns that were in power the previous 8 years and then come crying with your pretty hands covered in mud------

everybody already is getting the refund, its buried in the withholding tables your employer uses to calculate the federal income tax they withhold.

So now there are more net takers than net givers. Bad sign!

so now stephenson, van tassel and their ilk are going to complain that the gov is giving us our money back?

This truly shows their colors.

Just hate mongers.

They hate public ed, democrats, anything that isn't far right wackiness.

I'll be sending my check back.
I don't believe in socialism.

This is nothing more than robbing Peter to pay Paul. Eventually all you will have is a very broke and sore Peter. The real shame is not edgecating our chillin by raising house taxes. But what the heck, being right down there with Mississippi, we at least have some good company.

What democratic koolaid have you been drinking? Bill Clinton and his idiotic policy of subprime mortgages "for everyone to have a piece of the american dream" is the genesis of this mess. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bush and Cheney. Any idiot who has a clue could figure that out.

nobama just keeps spending all of us into oblivion with all his grand "government will save you plans".

Last time I checked on the govt administerd plans it has:

SS scheduled to bankrupt

Medicare scheduled to go bankrupt

Govt (we) are already so far in debt it can never be repaid.

So of course nobamas plan is to perpetuate the myth that we can be saved by BORROWING EVEN MORE MONEY!!!!

The govt would do well to teach people to be prudent and not excessively borrow for WANTS but oh no--spend spend spend.

We all know that nobamas plan is not working as shown by unemployment and economic results when he himself said it would. Biden trots out the apology.

I'm glad because his obscene health scare spending plan will fail now. Lucky for all of us.

Something else we cant afford!!!

Legislate dont operate!!!!!

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money. Margret Thatcher. So who is going to pay for everything? What ever happened to the balanced budget. Love California? Look out it is coming to a neighborhood near you!

So you resort to petty insults and name calling when you have no argument?

First of all, Cheney and Bush, as you call it, did NOT inherit a surplus. This is a constant misnomer that gets bandied around by political hacks and power brokers.

This so called surplus was said to be near a trillion or more, but after just six months it was now a deficit of 350 billion? Excuse me?

That "surplus" was based on cooked books and faulty wall street analysis that was done one year prior to Bush taking office. Since that faulty analysis, it was discovered that wall street was over valued by as much as 800 percent, causing your "surplus" to actually be a deficit, because there would be no excess taxes collected to create such a surplus.

Now you tack on 9/11 and two wars, and you get a different picture.

Now ON to Obama, he has in just six months managed to run up and promise to run up the deficit in just one year to a level that exceeds 8 years of Bush! And that includes the war funding!

Get your head on straight man, before you lose it!

The State of Utah will more than make up for the tax difference.

It does not matter how much we argue this. We are doomed and will never recover. Our politicians, both sides, have assassinated this country.

Oooops, the feds don't have any money to send back to the workers in this country. Where are they getting the money? printing and borrowing. So, they will continue to do what govt. does best, spend our money. And we will continue to do what we do best, make money for them to spend.

In Obama's fist few months in office he spent or proposed spending as much as all presidents combined from Wastington through GW Bush. Where is that money coming from for the tax refund. Shell games. And as the first poster said it was our money to begin with.

Don't send the check back, they'll just use it for something stupid. Donate it to anything that opposes Obama's socialist agenda.

Go Obama! go socialism! Down with Fascist Republican policies! Down with HATE!

The article makes it sound like people are getting a gift from government in a refund. What a refund is for is overpaying taxes in the first place. Many people overpay their taxes to avoid costly and expensive fines and penalties if they haven't paid enough. Overpaying their taxes is much easier than having to come up with hundreds or thousands of dollars when taxes are due.

The only exception to income taxes are the illegal individuals and business that don't pay income taxes or file returns. Employing illegals and paying them under the table is a lucrative tax evasion incentive for employers.

Refunds are not the government giving money away, they have this excess money and must return the excess taxes by law. Most states and government count on these excess taxes to use throughout the year to spend so they are enjoying this while they have it. Look what these excess in paid taxes did to many states this year, they spent the excess and didn't have the money to return the refunds.

If everyone stopped paying excessive income taxes and only paid the minimum many states would be in foreclosure and bankrupt immediately.

I have nothing good to say about the Republican Party, Especially those in Utah.
They are all behind the times by 100 years.
Education is the main problem, Failure to learn the U,S Constitution and the 27 Ammendments that protect the People from Bad Government.
Failure to learn that Utah is a Federal Criminal Run State.
We have Rules how to do things given by our Fore Fathers.
Wisdom now being forgotten.