Little known fact...only Republican's have Common Sense

Ok Cristin...before never speaking to me again...read on. I'm not really saying I believe that (although I've often felt that way many times :) ), but read on...

So today (January 24, 2008), the details of the 'Tax Relief' plan that was passed by Congress were announced. Read it here if you care.

http://www.startribune.com/business/14178126.html

Now, that's great and all. Now let's go back to logic class and see if I can remember how things work. So here's a few 'familiar looking' logic test questions (true or false of course)

1. Everyone who pays income, works. Therefor, everyone who works, pays income tax. Easy...FALSE. As stated in the article and most people know, if you don't make enough, you don't pay taxes.

2. Rebates are an amount of money given back to you for something that you paid for. Therefor, you must pay for something in order to get a rebate. Easy again...TRUE.

But wait! According to our lawmakers, we can give someone a $300 INCOME TAX rebate, even if they didn't pay any income tax! Ok...so that's fine. But the article states:

"Conservative Republicans, meanwhile, were likely to be restless over tax rebates going to those without income tax liability."

Ok...so logically it would make sense that you would have some sort of liability in order to get something back. But apparently only conservative Republican's are capable of grasping that concept? I would hope that MOST AMERICAN's, regardless of political affiliation, would be smart enough and logical enough to feel restless about that.

There Jim, how's that for keeping it short, stupid? And I appologize to any democrats, republicans, independants, greens, communists, nazis, etc. that may have been offended by this. I understand that COMMON SENSE (not republicans) can sometimes make it seem like people should be accountable and responsible for themselves. It's unfortunate.