Look - I don't understand how you get a refund on taxes you haven't paid in the first place. I don't understand how the elimination of dividend taxes turned into the elimination of all taxes on some money either.
Even though I'm allegedly a "misguided moron"
I
do know Jack Shit - unfortunately, he doesn't understand the tax laws either. I have no doubt that I am just as mathmatically challenged as you, and am every bit as unhappy when I write out the tax checks. I'm also fucking pissed when I swipe my card at the local Shell station, buy my coffee at the local coffee house, get my groceries at the local grocery store, pay for shirts from Land's End, etc., etc., etc. I made this friggin' money - I want to keep it.
This thread started out about the premise that the tax cuts were about stimulating the economy. I think that's a red herring. I think that the tax cuts are idealogically motivated, and don't really have much to do with stimulating the economy.