Lisa: In fact, I’ve already received several gracious “you’re welcomes” from weathy folks who are being forced to pay for my next 24 bottles of Jameson. It’s very kind of them.

From one of them:

You are welcome. As one of those well paid but not wealthy individuals who is overpaying taxes so you can be bribed with a rebate I will tell you that I may have actually saved your life today. If I were to reveal your glee in getting and deciding to keep said rebate to my wonderful liberal, feminist wife I would pray that God takes you before she finds you. Lets just say that any discussion of income taxes brings her to a stuttering rage that no man chauvinist pro-lifer ever has. If there were actual tax collectors in this day and age I would certainly have to physically restrain her at tax time.

Unfortunately for them, they have no avenue of redress even if they want one — as you note, our Republican president is the one who conceived of this bill and signed it into law.

Another reader gets the point on the evils of middle-class welfare, and adds another:

[Y]our descendants and mine will have to repay the money that is being borrowed to give us an incentive to spend. There’s no guarantee that our dependents will in fact be rich. Future governments saddled with a weakened dollar and a massive debt may find themselves constrained to tax everyone, rich and poor, at an unreasonable rate…Who’s the sucker now?

UPDATE: And this from another happy winner:

I just made under the limit AND I have 2 kids. I’ll trump your 24 bottles of Jameson with 6 bottles of Glenfiddich and a new 50″ plasma. Thanks GW, I’ll kinda miss you!