[OldChum]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

In order to get a tax credit, you have to pay taxes? What pisses me off is that these people paid taxes for years, keeping the economy going through good times and bad yet now they get the shaft because their income isn't sufficient to live above the poverty line.

We can bailout banks, auto companies and extend financial help to the unemployed, but when it comes to taking care of our own aged family members, the attitude becomes fuck em. If the Government's so cheap that it can't give these people the $1350 renovation tax credit, it speaks volumes about how cheap and petty we are as a nation.

Yes it doe,s we tend to treat most of the elderly bad , when was the last time you heard the pension amount going up a real amount . Yet we forget that we are all getting older.

[Proculation]

It was clearly said in the ads that it was a tax credit. Seniors have paid taxes all their life. I'm quite sure they understand what a tax credit is. If not, maybe they didn't ever pay taxes...

[Freakinoldguy]

Proculation Proculation:

It was clearly said in the ads that it was a tax credit. Seniors have paid taxes all their life. I'm quite sure they understand what a tax credit is. If not, maybe they didn't ever pay taxes...

Just because you make less than the deductible, doesn't mean you don't pay taxes. It just means that you pay taxes on everything, but the income tax, because your to freakin poor to even make it to the poverty level line.

So, given the theory that the only way to get a tax credit is to pay income tax then logically no seniors or poor people who don't make the deductible should ever have to FILE their taxes.

Just which way does the government want it.