How handy to be able to split hairs and separate poverty into convenient “qualifying” categories and shrug it off as an answer. This is part of the reason the problem exists. Is there much difference between a family that earned a taxable income last year of $1000 and one that didn’t?

Do you think that you’re doing your part by yelling out your car window “get a job!!” to the homeless on the side of the road?

This rebate squander of tax dollars truly is a meaningless and mindless gesture in that it does nothing more than to put more money into the cash registers of those who hardly need it. In that sense the rebate is nothing more than just another kick in the face to the poor. A theatrical display.

If it were really well intended, that money would be better spent on preventative programs, new, or existing.