tax rebate checks

Those who need it the most aren't even aware that they're eligible to receive it.....

NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee - Many seniors not filing for tax rebate checks

Many seniors not filing for tax rebate checks

The AP turned out one of those "woe is me" stories a few days ago regarding the tax rebate checks that started going out last month. Instead of buying big-screen TV's and iPods, many Americans are apparently using their windfall on cost of living.

Tim Chavez urges readers at Hispanic Nashville to use their tax rebate checks to retire the debt of the only Hispanic Catholic Church in Nashville.

According to the Associated Press, "For a bipartisan majority of senators, providing three months or six months of extra unemployment checks to more than 1 million jobless people is a better way to dig the economy out of a recession than just printing tax rebate checks."

Much has been said about the upcoming alleged individual tax rebate checks as a part of the President's economic stimulus plan. I'd like to talk a little bit about one of the facets of the plan that is designed for businesses. The piece is called bonus depreciation or accelerated depreciation. Let me explain what this is and how it came to be important. Then I'll let you decide if it will work or not. Here goes.

This one would be hilarious if I didn’t know that this over-stuffed vanful of illegals would have probably smashed into some other innocent motorists if they hadn’t rammed an official Homeland Security SUV. Then again, the SUV deserved it, because, well, it’s an evil SUV.

CNN is trying to get you to believe that we are not in a recession, based on some ridiculous game.

CNN’s Recession-o-meter — our unscientific poll of financial experts at the World Economic Forum at Davos — has spoken. And it’s decided that the world economy is in slowdown, not recession.