Lawmakers clinch deal giving repayable rebates to us and tax cuts to businesses.
The article
Articles abound regarding the stimulus package upon which lawmakers recently agreed. These articles mention that families will get rebate checks but businesses will get tax cuts. Pundits and so-called journalists, intent on misinforming their public, focused on the arguments among the non-rich regarding whether folks who don't actually earn enough to pay taxes should get a rebate or whether unemployment or food stamps should be increased and extended.
No where in any article I've read in the MSM do the pundits/journalists mention that the rebate must be repaid! I know it is so. Possibly you do, too. Many do not.
Just as there should be no mention of federal budgetary concerns, surprises, deficit increases or reductions without mentioning the sleight-of-hand which occurs with those budgets, i.e., the 'SS Trust Fund' depletions, or the 'off-the-budget' wars, there should be no mention of a rebate check without spelling out the fact that it must be repaid.
If the government gave a one-time, repayable rebates to businesses and tax cuts to middle-class individuals and families, I might be more accepting. If the tax cuts were to go to 'real' American companies, i.e., those who pay US taxes and do not avoid them and those who hire US citizens and do not seek to outsource hig-value jobs, I might be okay with it. As it stands, the rebate program is a farce.