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Originally Posted by 73Goat
The issue I have is that, if the credit is intended to 'stimulate' the economy, what difference does it make what income level is eligible? I just have a philisophical issue with limiting incentives based on income.
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Consider that the ideal concept of "stimulus" is based on the funds being totally and swiftly put back into the domestic economy. The higher the wealth and income of the recipients, the greater the amount of stimulus funds that end up buying an island condo, Italian sports car or just sitting in some passive bank account. One of the big problems with economic recovery is that the largest banks are withholding billions of dollars from the economy. Some may think this sounds like smart business on their part, but in reality that money was formerly paying the wages of most of the current millions of unemployed, who now cannot further stimulate the economy with their purchases, and must increasingly rely on public funds to survive.