Once again people who are in the above 150K but below 200K are reminded that there is no incentive in this country to make money. Bah.

The oil companies get a 50% write off immediately for all the new plants they have built & new equipment they have purchased. Where did they build new plants & what new equipment? The other big businesses hire illegals so they don't have to pay payroll taxes. The average American makes less than $85,000.00 a year & has a family,medical bills,food & school supplies. Who is making out with this tax rebate?
It puts money right away into the hands of the people who don't need it & the people who do & will spend it have to wait 6 months & then be taxed on these rebates next year, while big business gets another tax write -off. Our elected officials are more concerned about their pockets than they are about the people who elected them.
Big business & the Oil Companies have shown the American public who is more important.

So, how much of this rebate money goes to pay for bad habits...cigarettes, drugs, alcohol?

So, I guess being retired on social security and pension with no earned income, I get no help. What a deal.

by the time this stimulist package reaches the average consumer.........we will bw either out of the recession or dead.........

is the 150,000 income from last year? this is
a new year, im unemployed and my husbands commision has been cut in half! we made 150,000 last year,
but we are not "making" 150,000 this year! need clarification!

send me $50.00 a week to fill my car with gas and i'll be happy

I thought buying votes in this country was against the law. No wonder why both parties got behind this welfare package -- to which my family will get nothing, except the bill.

I understand about working class households needing this tax refund, I'm sure raising a family now days with the very high cost of living has pulled apart a many household budget but the way its stated it will leave out a very large group of Americans that has no recourse, they are to old to get a job now days & they are on fixed incomes, if they get a raise on their Social Security checks then Medicare raisies our premiums until nearly the hold raise is eaten up by Medicare (by the way in case there is some out there that don't know about these increases, they are only like 1 or 2 %), seems to me that senior Americans that are on fixed income pay the same price for a loaf of bread & a gallon of gasoline as the working class does, its bad enough that Congress has seen fit to cut the amount of the refund checks to less then half of what they started with & now the 30 to 40 million Americans that are on fixed incomes find out that they are not going to get anything, well I think that when it comes to voting we should show the ones in Congress now that their jobs in Congress is not a shoe in for any of them, they can be removed...I'm 68 years old & I have seen lots of them come & go & I have learned that anytime that a Republican president & a Democraticly control Congress stricks a deal, look out because some group of people in this couintry is fixing to get screwed...this time looks like its going to be us old timers...truly this is a free country if you can afford to pay for it...way to go Congress, no wonder we as citizens of the USA have no faith in our elected Congress & President ......

"The Man From Texas"

This country is going to hell with our politicians leading the way. This stimulus is smoke and mirrors at election time. What we need is more truth about the economy and the long term solutions. Once this is all said and done,the middle class will no longer exist,and Wall street and all the other ilk will have their way in Washington once and for all. Do you really think the long standing senators and congressman?