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How do you plan to spend your tax refund this year?
Asked at Asked at Hy-Vee, 4000 W. Sixth St. on March 1, 2010
“Probably put it back into energy-efficient windows in my house.”
“Well, if I get a tax refund, I’m just going to pay a couple of my small bills, get back to even. I’m not going to Vegas.”
“We’re planning on putting some of it away and paying some bills.”
“We are paying bills.”
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xbusguy 3 years, 2 months ago
How do you plan to spend your tax refund this year?
Pay other taxes
snap_pop_no_crackle 3 years, 2 months ago
Compared to last year, less liquor, more ammo.
jumpin_catfish 3 years, 2 months ago
I'm givin' it back to the government because they do such a great job using our money. NOT!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
I will be using it to help President Obama fight KILLER HOT DOGS. Every year dozens of kids choke to death on hot dogs, taking too big of bites and failing to masticate properly. After hotdogs, we will focus on banning bathtubs, then bicycles for children under 12.
Happy National Self-Injury Awareness Day!
grammaddy 3 years, 2 months ago
The usual. catch up on a few bills and a major purchase. This year it's five new tires on the car. Maybe another road trip. In the car this time, not on the train.
radiohawk 3 years, 2 months ago
Sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Mel Briscoe 3 years, 2 months ago
plan to spend it? its already half spent! i mainly paid bills and bought stuff that we needed... oh, and car repairs. and i got my two kittens spayed/neutered (cost just as much as the car repairs!).
RoeDapple 3 years, 2 months ago
That and the change from the sofa should buy me a cup of coffee...
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
autie, HOLY EPI-PEN!!! Did you fall for that? Peanut Butter Lover's Day is another of Carter's evil machinations.
Vic 3 years, 2 months ago
Already spent because I already got it. New transmission for my car.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
Theoretically speaking, If one folded form K-210 into a paper airplane and threw it against the Docking State Office Building, would that be considered "Domestic Terrorism"?
CWGOKU 3 years, 2 months ago
Refund? I don't know if we are getting one or not, since my wife is self employed we use a CPA to do our taxes and I never see them. I suppose if I get one, I'll donate it to the get Spacehog out of Jail Fund.
CreatureComforts 3 years, 2 months ago
Savings savings savings! Yeah, I know that is an evil word in America...
Dejacrew423 3 years, 2 months ago
We use our refund to pay off bills and then the rest goes into our savings account and the kids savings accounts. We never really get to do anything fun with it. I want to be one of those people that gets it and just blows it on crap. I know a girl that once used her refund to get a breast augmentation. Now talk about investing wisely!!
CWGOKU 3 years, 2 months ago
Happy March 1st............ Winter over? According to Wikipedia today is National Pig Day.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
CW, Well, July 17th is Yellow Pigs Day.
ksmax 3 years, 2 months ago
Well lucky me, I get to pay for a bankrupcy....I have lost my home and my car.....I am a product of this "great" economy!!! All the money to bail out the big corporations, while the little person just gets to lose everything! What a great world we live in!!!
ksmax 3 years, 2 months ago
Oh, and I get to pay the State!!
Wallythewalrus 3 years, 2 months ago
Once H&R block takes their cut, I guess I could pay the contractor that put in the new energy efficient door and window in on my house. I want my money back.
Leslie Swearingen 3 years, 2 months ago
Bob, is that some kind of weird joke? Is Spacehog really in jail? Would not that be first page news.? Or is it connected with the story of the girl? :-) I redecorated the bedroom and living room with new curtains.
notajayhawk 3 years, 2 months ago
Spent most of ours five weeks ago, the weekend we got it.
kclee 3 years, 2 months ago
getting another card and investing in cloth diapers!! yes
MyName 3 years, 2 months ago
Wait, I get a refund?
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
autie, Not sure about the cars, but meth residue is a bonus.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
autie, Not sure about the cars, but meth residue is a bonus.
Agnostick 3 years, 2 months ago
This might help us button up our down payment on a new home--and just in time, too! Over the weekend, we spotted a really nice "fixer-upper" just east of town, out on 1500. Needs some work, especially outside (lots of junk, old cars need to be hauled away, etc.). One of the neighbors said the previous owner used to trim trees or something--real quiet fellow, though, never any trouble out of him. We expect the property to be listed any day now...
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago
Popes Log, Discordian date:Setting Orange, Chaos 60, 3176 YOLD,
Once again, All CaPiTaLs lost.
puddleglum 3 years, 2 months ago
dang VIC, that's a hard way to go, unless it is a tranny upgrade...
I plan on burning my refund on a cross ram intake for hemi...
anybody got one?
love2bike 3 years, 2 months ago
save it
beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago
judiciously
jonas_opines 3 years, 2 months ago
"I want to know how this earned income thing works when you didn't earn any income?"
It doesn't. You have to have earned income to get the earned income credit.
beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago
Careful jonas, moocher is likely to think the allowance mom gives him each week will qualify.
kenny_powers 3 years, 2 months ago
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Pywacket 3 years, 2 months ago
I get to recycle my response to the "pothole city" letter:
(With our tax refund....) We're going to buy all of Lawrence's potholes and dump them in our back yard to make a swimming pool. Big 'un.
Yeah, we'll need to line the huge hole with cement, then catch enough rain to fill it, but the end result should be amazing.
Pool party!
Damian666 3 years, 2 months ago
This question carries the assumption that we paid taxes....
BigPrune 3 years, 2 months ago
Refund? Who gets a refund these days?
If you overpay the IRS, shouldn't they have to pay interest to the taxpayer instead of using the money for free? The IRS charges interest to the taxpayer if they can't pay their taxes. Why the double standard?
KRichards 3 years, 2 months ago
Does anyone here realize that the bigger the refund the bigger the interest free loan you gave the govt throughout the whole year.
I always make sure I owe the government a little bit of money at year end. I would much rather have them give me a small interest free loan over the opposite. But I guess some of you either just don't know a lick about taxes or you are just terrible at saving your own money.
AreUNorml 3 years, 2 months ago
KR, I think most of them rely heavily on the Earned Income Credits and such. so what they are reaping at the end of the year is actually redistribution of wealth. The income tax system is a load of crap!
leedavid 3 years, 2 months ago
Refund????? What is that?
Pywacket 3 years, 2 months ago
RUN~ Very true. One more possibility that KR omitted---many of us are not that anal over what (for the average worker/taxpayer) amounts to chump change. We get a few thousand back sometimes, or a few hundred, depending on what my husband's business has done, and, yes, we could easily adjust withholding so as to owe rather than receive, but we don't actually mind the gov't using a few hundred/couple thousand of our money during the year.
I figure it's getting put to a much better use than the THOUSANDS we pay to various insurance (i.e., legalized mafia) companies year after year, receiving NOTHING back most years. Funny why we don't ever hear the KRs of the world bi***ing about that.
If you're healthy and your house doesn't burn down/blow away and you can avoid having your car smashed by idiot drivers, the money you've paid into insurance policies never comes back to you--and the insurance companies are not using it to pave the streets, provide military protection, schools, or anything else--it's just lining the pockets of their bloated pig CEOs.
But let's ignore that and endlessly b**ch about taxes, for which we do receive many tangible benefits. I will never understand this mentality.
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