Stimulus tax credit, WG at FC, and Twitter brandjacking

[mortonfox]

I finally got a chance to take a look at the House Stimulus Bill (H.R. 1), not the 647-page full text but at least the summaries. Just like last year, there is a tax credit. It's $500 for individuals with a phase-out starting at an AGI of $75K. So once again, I'll get nothing. Same old story. Then again, folks like me are always tripping over bags of money</sarcasm> and therefore need no special incentive to go out and buy those big-screen TVs, right?

Speaking of money, I didn't attend Further Confusion this year but apparently, one of my Where's George bills did. It's really cool that the user note actually mentions the con. I was wondering how it got there but then I remembered that foxwell and jbadger had some of my bills from when we met up and did a mascot gig in December so that's probably it. Thanks to both of you for getting the bills out there.

And finally, it appears that someone is starting sh*t on Twitter by brandjacking Furcadia, following every furry on Twitter, and posting a whole bunch of nonsense. I was just going to ignore that but there were two things to note. First is the 16 follow-backs. I have to ask why. I guess some have auto-follow turned on or are less discriminating in who they follow. Eh, their choice. Second is there do seem to be quite a number of folks from the fandom on Twitter now, which is quite a change from the days when only I and a few others were tweeting.

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

So, you're not getting the 500 bucks because you make MORE than 75k USD a year?

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Yes. The other way of looking at it is I'm paying over $40K in taxes and not getting any tax relief.

[the-mcp.livejournal.com]

That's because you're one of those Evil Rich Capitalists, don'tcha know. :D You obviously have more than you "need", so you deserve to have it taken away from you and give it to someone more deserving of it. (Besides, you probably stole it from them or cheated them out of it somehow anyway.)

[note: this post has been closed-captioned for the sarcasm-impaired. :D ]

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you're not one of those who really *need* a tax break to begin with.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Then again, there are lots of things I'm doing without at the same time and it would be nice if they'd throw me a bone once in a while. But that's not going to happen.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Yeah, well, I certainly can see why you'd like a tax break - extra money is always nice. :)