Survey: How Will You Spend Your Rebate?

The great outcome of spending it on a plasma TV: more cash goes overseas to Asia, where they are manufactured. Great way to dig an even deeper whole.

I say stick it to the man, and use the money to pay off credit debt :-)

Silly President, cash is for rainy days not flat TVs...thanks for the savings boost!

i voted for the 'slots' not 'cause i'm actually likely to go to Vegas or anything, but because there's a good chance we will use it to take our kids on a vacation somewhere that doesn't involve relatives. we've never taken a 'real' vacation, and want to give our kids at least one memory of a family vacation before their grown.

I'll be paying for my wife's summer tuition.

With my tax rebate, I'm going to be buying a more fuel-efficient car, a Scion xA

My husband has already lost his job, and my online income isn't enough to make up for it. The rebate will definitely come in handy, although if my husband doesn't have a job in a couple months we'll be moving in with the inlaws anyhow, auggh!

Money will go to medical bills.

Probably use it to pay my taxes ...

Tax free money goes straight into Roth-IRA. This is tax-free, isn't it?

I'm pretty sure I'm paying bills with it, Flat screen TV's! Ha, thats just silly!

Anonymous, I bet we'll have to claim it as income for 2008. Of course some of us will be punished for making too much and our taxes will just go to pay everyone else rebate.

Straight to the Nature Conservancy!

Exactly where is this cash coming from? I suspect we might turn the way of Germany post WWII....Using the old dollar bills for wallpaper. Bleck!

However, I will get a used front loading washer and a nice, used drying rack for my clothes. The rest will sit in the bank for a while. We only buy what we have too. It worked for our ancestors, why not do the same?

I know lots of people are whinning about the refund, but I believe any time the government gives back money to the people who earned it, its a good idea. They should do this more often. I don't need a bunch of beaurocrats in DC spending my money. Keep sending me more of my money.

dennis lima has a brain...we're gonna DRIVE(slightly over the speed limit) around the country eating steak and tipping the waitstaff very well(1/3 or so) and leave a note reminding them where it came from, unless of course they express some leftist, tree-hugger crap. If they do any of that they get a tree-hugger type tip(nearly none)
Then we'll come home and cut some firewood, or rather, pay some young MEN (chicks cannot handle the work, not even BigBadLesboTree-HuggerChicks)to cut some firewood. Did you know that a 100+year-old oak goes down on less than a quart of gas in fewer than 10 minutes? Cool Huh?

To some extent I think the ground-swell of optimism in the wake of Obama's victory is harmless. People are happy, they're surprised it came to pass, they're hopeful times will change, but most don't really believe America will be transformed into a new Eden. To the extent that some do, I think Obama carries some of the blame, but better that he ran as a hopemonger and won than that he ran as a cynic and lost. For those holdouts, though, here's Ta-Nehisi Coates on what Obama means for black America--and, by inference, putting to rest the odd notion that Obama will solve any of America's deep-rooted problems using the abstract power of his symbolic importance.