This letter is costing you $42 millionForty-two million dollars so George can tie his name to the 'stimulus plan'. What a bunch of overspending fools.
The Internal Revenue Service is spending the money on letters to alert taxpayers to expect rebate checks as part of the economic stimulus plan.
The notices are going out this month to an estimated 130 million households that filed returns for the 2006 tax year, at a cost of $41.8 million, IRS spokesman John Lipold confirmed.
... Democrats accused the Bush administration of wasting time and postage.
"There are countless better uses for $42 million than a self-congratulatory mailer that gives the president a pat on the back for an idea that wasn't even his," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday.
- No offense intended, Filius, on comparing you 'drunken sailors' to George W.
