#msg-1124652
"They're saying that people who are not required to file a tax return will not get any payment unless they immediately file a return, even if that is no tax owed. They claim that this is the only way that Washington will know who you are and where you live, to send the checks."
What's the matter, OCU ... you afraid that foreign nationals who are presently in this country ILLEGALLY won't be able to commit yet another act of theft from the American people? How else do you propose that they administer this, eh? Oh ... I got it ... instead of properly vetting their legitimacy and eligibility through the filing of a tax return with a valid Social Security number, the people who do not file tax returns can skip the middleman and show up at your house and get the cash from you, directly. Hell, while they are there, they can get your big screen TV, too.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence