Not feeling very stimulated
Friday, March 21st, 2008 by Scott ShackfordI put up a new poll question this week asking folks what they’re going to do with their stimulus checks. It seems as though, so far, we’re not interested in the task of allegedly stimulating the economy with new purchases. Instead, most of the voters so far say they’ll use the check to pay down their debts and to pay for basic necessities. This is amusing in the sense that if the government hadn’t taken that money away from us in taxes in the first place, we might not have had the debt to pay down.
I too will be using the check to pay down debt, which will put me at 0-for-2 in using this money in the way the government wants me to. When we got the last “stimulus check” in 2001, I spent it all on a trip visiting some friends in Toronto, Canada, so all that money went to stimulate another nation’s economy.
I just can’t do anything the government wants me to do, can I?
