Letting Americans Keep more of their money.

I am not an overly political person, but I just read an article in which these words stood out to me: "Letting Americans keep more of their money should increase spending and revive the economy." (emphasis added)

Ya think?

I just got our W-2 for Chris's job last night. More than 12% of every dollar he made was reserved for Federal taxes. That's not including the Social security and other stuff. So let me guess, in addition to the 8.25% sales tax we pay on every dollar, and on top of the 'Lord only knows how much' we pay for every drop of petroleum product we use, someone in Washington thinks that "letting Americans keep more of what they make" is going to help us bolster the unstable economy.

Call me crazy. But if we all do, in fact, spend the money we earned by way of our newer, bigger tax returns, like they are hoping we will, they will get a good percentage of it back anyway in the form of some kind of tax.

In my world, this practice is commonly referred to as "regifting."

If that isn't a dog chasing its own tail, I don't know what is...

If you are, for some reason, still soaking in my uneducated rantings, Thank You!
My soap boxes are important to me. LOL!

P.S. Upon reflection, I wanted to add that although government in general tends to ruffle my feathers from time to time, I am strangely grateful and outraged at the same time. We sure could use the larger return!