The Republicans are big on claiming any return of taxes is just returning the tax payers own money back.
The seems to make sense but is really wrong. We spent all our money on things such as the medicaid prescription drug plan, the war effort, the rebuilding of Iraq, social security, and stuff like that. We don't have any of our money left. We have a 9 trillion dollar debt and probably a 300 billion dollar deficit. We spent the money, or our elected leaders spent it on our "behalf" so really we don't have any left. We getting borrowed money back.
What we are really getting is money from the kids who haven't even been born yet but will have to pay back the Chinese and the Saudi's.