Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Trump Vanity Letter
So, did everybody get the Trump vanity letter with the IRS return address regarding the stimulus payment? I was out on the deck, reading, when I hear Larry getting the mail and he says 'We got something from the IRS'. Now, I am no more scared of the IRS than your average American citizen. Our taxes aren't as straightforward as they could be, plus I have to file each year for my parents' estate (long story), but there aren't any current issues, at least none that I know of. Still, nobody likes to get something from the IRS, am I right? So, I open it and there is this letter, filled with his usual self-congratulatory nonsense, paid for by our tax dollars. What does it cost the government to send out something like that to millions of people? I just read a story about it in the Washington Post and apparently I wasn't the only one upset about it. I guess the law did specify the letter had to go out but leave it to the moron in the White House to make it all about him. Plus, there is a number you can call if you didn't get your payment or have questions, but it just gets you to an automated system that tells you to go to IRS.gov. Yeah, good luck that that!
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We got no letter, just a direct deposit into our bank account. Lucky us. We were owed money this tax year so the IRS had our account number. Glad not to see his letter.
ReplyDeleteYou should get one. Ours was direct deposited also. I think there was one letter per bank account because we only got one. That was too many!
DeleteI just got my $1200. I feel like I should do something with it to help people who don't have it cozy being retired, and are either going broke or having to work somewhere that puts them at risk. I had a lot of ideas of what i might do with it, or part of it, hedging already, but now that i have it in my account, my thoughts are turning stingy.
ReplyDeleteI had some of the same thoughts, but haven't done it yet. Our local food bank could definitely use it. Usually there is a bin at the grocery stores, but I tried to bring in some cans to put in there the last time I was at the store and the gal at the front door looked at me like I was trying to bring in poison. No dice.
DeleteWell, we actually did get the stupid letter in the mail. All I can think is that Trump has reversed his opinion of the post office and decided to support it by mailing all of these letters out to the public.
ReplyDeleteWe donated one third of our check to the Natural Resources Defense Council and one third to our local house for abused women and the other third will go to support the woman who is running against McConnell in Kentucky. Fred wanted the last one and I wanted to support Biden, but Fred won.
That's great! If there is anyone who rivals Donald Trump for sheer evil, it is Mitch McConnell. How I would love to see him gone in November.
DeleteOh how sweet, the demise of Moscow Mitch.
ReplyDeleteI got a direct deposit and the letter. Tony also got a direct deposit. I'm holding on to his because I have no doubt they will eventually be asking for that back when I file my 2020 taxes. Apparently Mnuchin is advising deceased people who received the paper check to write void on it and mail back and for direct deposits he wants the survivors to write a personal check to the government. No way, because I know there would be NO accurate record of my having sent the refund. I'll wait until tax time. Meanwhile, my own is supporting a variety of local causes.
ReplyDeleteDid you guys get the postcard sent a month or so earlier with the President's corona advice?