But unfortunately, as someone who has volunteered to help working poor folk file taxes and get the EITC–there are a number of folks–particularly mom’s who got pregnant in their teenage years who always seemed to tell me about going to the mall.

Our job was to try to get them to put some money in the bank. Often a hard sell.

(We’ll be donating our check)

I do hope every Americans who gets a check will meditate or pray (as your wont) on the blessings we still have as the richest nation in the world — as unequal as some of those riches may be distributed — and consider the billions of people poorer than themselves before they decide what to do with that bounty.

I live in L.A. and we are paying $4.19. I may have to give up some sort of luxury…like food.

Taxes add a significant amount to the price of motor fuel and vary widely by state. For the first quarter of 2008, the average state gasoline tax is 28.6 cents per gallon, plus 18.4 cents per gallon federal tax making the total 47 cents per gallon. For diesel, the average state tax is 29.2 cents per gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per gallon federal tax making the total 53.6 cents per gallon.

That’s conservation. The environment and Al Gore thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpDTvlSd0×4&

this is why this election is historic and why we should fight.

What I feel about that “economic stimulus” package proposed by Bush is something I cannot repeat for human consumption. Ugh.

Especially since I owe taxes this year, and they’ll probably keep that lil check, anyway. I don’t understand using the paper and postage to send me a check, only to send me another letter telling me I won’t get the check because I owe taxes.

Is that some crazy stuff, or what???!!!

McCain’s idea of suspending the gas tax for the summer is nice idea. Hey I’m ok with saying a Republican had a nice idea!

“I propose that the federal government suspend all taxes on gasoline now paid by the American people — from Memorial Day to Labor Day of this year. The effect will be an immediate economic stimulus — taking a few dollars off the price of a tank of gas every time a family, a farmer, or trucker stops to fill up. Over the same period, our government should suspend the purchase of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which has also contributed to the rising price of oil. This measure, combined with the summer-long “gas-tax holiday,” will bring a timely reduction in the price of gasoline. And because the cost of gas affects the price of food, packaging, and just about everything else, these immediate steps will help to spread relief across the American economy.”

The tax is 18.7 cents a gallon!

While my family did not qualify for a stimulus check this would help us as my husband drives over 100 miles a day for his job, I’m a seemingly non-stop chauffeur for my kids and we insist our teenage driver pay for his own gas.