tomikawaTT wrote: If you have seven children who all qualify as minor dependents, your spouse is NOT unemployed!
<sigh>
I do not qualify for any refund. Lucky buggers.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
MisterBeasley wrote:Some of us are talking about putting sound in an engine, or buying some rolling stock off of eBay. You are going to put your money towards a house with, dare I say it, a basement. You're going to make the best investment of any of us, I promise.
Some of us are talking about putting sound in an engine, or buying some rolling stock off of eBay. You are going to put your money towards a house with, dare I say it, a basement. You're going to make the best investment of any of us, I promise.
Oh, I know...and it's going to be the biggest investment that SHOULD last a lifetime.
And You have no idea how much I WISH there were basements around here. But not in my area of Texas.
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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vsmith wrote:Well you better not run out and spend money you dont have yet, earliest mail delivery date I heard was JUNE!...
Well you better not run out and spend money you dont have yet, earliest mail delivery date I heard was JUNE!
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And that's if it's passed through both houses of Congress and signed by the president by March 1st - none of which has happened yet. Also at this point in time the Senate looks like they will add stuff which will drag the process out as everbody renegotiates the deal.
So I agree - don't spend it before it's in your hot little hands.
Enjoy
Paul
I'm hitting Caboose Hobbies in Denver for a couple of used brass Rio Grande C-45 2-8-0's. One can NEVER have enough 2-8-0's.
Tom
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IRONROOSTER wrote: vsmith wrote: Well you better not run out and spend money you dont have yet, earliest mail delivery date I heard was JUNE!...And that's if it's passed through both houses of Congress and signed by the president by March 1st - none of which has happened yet. Also at this point in time the Senate looks like they will add stuff which will drag the process out as everbody renegotiates the deal. So I agree - don't spend it before it's in your hot little hands.EnjoyPaul
vsmith wrote: Well you better not run out and spend money you dont have yet, earliest mail delivery date I heard was JUNE!...
Yep! This is NOT a done deal yet. Ted Kennedy said today he wants to add at least 5 pieces of pork onto it or Dems aren't gonna vote for it.
MisterBeasley wrote: Arjay1969 wrote: BEing "Po' Folk", my wife and I will definitely qualify. As for how much of it will be spent on trains....simple answer is: None. It'll all go into savings so that we will have enough saved up in the next couple of years for a downpayment on a house (and let's not go into the whole housing market debate...I'm depressed enough about it). If you aren't already in trouble with one of those dangerous "balloon" mortgages or ARM's, all of this is actually good news for you. First, housing prices are falling, so your dream house is already cheaper than it was last year. Second, mortgage rates for qualified buyers of reasonably-priced homes are also falling, thanks to government intervention and lack of demand. Usually, when rates go down, prices go up, and vice versa, but right now both are down. The situation is good for buyers, bad for sellers.Some of us are talking about putting sound in an engine, or buying some rolling stock off of eBay. You are going to put your money towards a house with, dare I say it, a basement. You're going to make the best investment of any of us, I promise.
Arjay1969 wrote: BEing "Po' Folk", my wife and I will definitely qualify. As for how much of it will be spent on trains....simple answer is: None. It'll all go into savings so that we will have enough saved up in the next couple of years for a downpayment on a house (and let's not go into the whole housing market debate...I'm depressed enough about it).
If you aren't already in trouble with one of those dangerous "balloon" mortgages or ARM's, all of this is actually good news for you. First, housing prices are falling, so your dream house is already cheaper than it was last year. Second, mortgage rates for qualified buyers of reasonably-priced homes are also falling, thanks to government intervention and lack of demand. Usually, when rates go down, prices go up, and vice versa, but right now both are down. The situation is good for buyers, bad for sellers.
I got pretty lucky on that one, sold my old house just before the bottom fell out of the market - actually got a couple thousand more than the assessed value for it, even my realtor said if it just got close to assessed value I'd be lucky compared to some sellers. After only one year in the new house (with a big basement) we refinanced and got an better interest rate (although the original one wasn't too bad).
Now if I can explain to my wife that when you buy things with credit cards, you really do have to pay for them eventually!!
i'll believe it when i see it. i bet it's only for full-time jobs. i work part time.
but hypothetically speaking if i ever did get such a check, i'll be buying some nice P2k locomotives for sure
or a bigger steamer. big boys and pacifics are nice, but cost appendages
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- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
I read this morning that oil prices started climbing again --as a result of the economic stimulus package!
Must've been an economic stimulus package for the countries a well-known Texan visited this past week!
I think that I will invest the money. I am very concerned that the impact will be negative if this is interpreted as a loan against future taxes. I have heard that a rate reduction on small busniesses is in the bill and I think that this is a good thing. I would prefer to see the 2001 and 2004 tax cuts made permanent and a further rate reduction for those who actually pay taxes to a one shot injection of cash into the economy.
If we cannot have what will grow the economy, I will take a quick injection of cash and buy a 6-month CD with it. If I find out that it wont hurt me next spring then I will move it into other investments.
As far as oil prices are concerned, I am sick of the high prices. We need to drill and produce all of the oil that we can here until we can find a viable and affordable alternative. I look forward to the day where we can have our cars and not use a drop of a depleteable fuel. Maybe I am dreaming but our fathers thought that they were dreaming when we sent a man to moon.
Kenfolk wrote: I read this morning that oil prices started climbing again --as a result of the economic stimulus package!Must've been an economic stimulus package for the countries a well-known Texan visited this past week!
It's not very well known, but most of our oil comes from Canada and Mexico. Wish we could drill for oil and build some more refineries, would give us a huge break on gas prices, and the price of plastic.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
DigitalGriffin wrote: <sigh>I do not qualify for any refund. Lucky buggers.
I also will not qualify for a refund. But then again, I am not counting on Social Security either but I help out by paying in the maximum every year. It sounds like many here will get some new train stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
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keydiverfla wrote:Send it back, they need it more than I do, besides, I paid for it anyway, it aint free money.
Not a chance, if I get anything back its going straight into the First National Bank of Me, not whissed away on overseas boondoggles like the Hasni Musharif Presidential Retirement Fund.
Have fun with your trains
If Congress can work with such clarity and focus of Mission we would all be better off I think.
Why is it that a Government can deploy Armed Forces to fight within hours and still need months to break it's own inertia to issue simple checks that contain actual money.
Thinking about this today I understand it will be past June before the checks arrive. They can keep the money because the year will be finished and over with by the time I or wife gets to do anything with it.
I bet that this money issue is costing our dear Uncle millions of dollars more in man hours, paper, printer ink and other associated costs of mass mailings, printings, accounting etc.
Now I see people being left out of the money from the sky issue and want a part of it. I find it interesting that we can ship carebear packages to faraway lands by the billions of dollars and cannot even take care of our own folks.
Finally but not last, I have a hard time reading about how the VA is always out of money or some other problem here at home and the Government opens a spigot and sprays money everywhere.
That needs to be resolved. Because inflation might come like a hangover does after sunrise.
Put it in the bank and wait. You can be certain the first thing the government did before announcing the program was to figure out a way to claw the money back.
Craig
DMW
I think this thread has run its course. Time to start talking trains again...
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