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Letters to the editor for Feb. 20

February 20, 2008

About those rebates

To the editor:

I have been reading about the tax refund the government says they are giving to people this year. Would you please put a notice in the paper that in order to get this refund, everyone has to file their taxes - even those on Social Security.

The way it sounds, if the Social Security or lower-income people don't file their taxes - and many don't - they will not get the rebate. I think the older people on Social Security should be notified of this, since they deserve a little extra money.

This is what the article says. But there are some exceptions:

- Individuals who might not otherwise be required to file a 2007 tax return will need to file a return this year to receive the stimulus payment. The return must show at least $3,000 in qualifying income. In other words, low-income workers who had at least $3,000 in earned income in 2007 but do not otherwise earn enough to be required to file a federal tax return, need to file a return in order to get the stimulus payment.

- Likewise, Social Security recipients, veterans and retired railroad workers who might not otherwise need to file a tax return must do so to receive the economic stimulus payment.

This is from the IRS.

Please let the public know they have to file in order to get the rebate.

Thank you.

Mary Haggard

Winchester

Poll wasn't objective

To the Sun:

Your online poll question Saturday was: "Twelve hundred people attended a rally in Frankfort Thursday to support state Rep. Don Pasley, D-Winchester's Stream Saver Bill, which would require coal companies to dispose of waste sediment on site rather than by dumping it into streams and polluting rivers. Would you support this bill even if it meant somewhat higher electricity prices?"

This is phrased in a way that is not objective. Do you have any independent research that indicates our electric rates will increase? How much of the coal that is mined by mountaintop removal methods is consumed by Kentucky Utilities?

In the future, please be more careful when you construct a poll.

Roy Silver

e-mail submission

Editor's note: The question was not intended to be subjective and does not imply that utility rates will rise (although this is coal industry spokesman Bill Caylor's argument). What we wanted to know was whether people would take an environmentalist stance on the issue if it affected their pocketbooks.

Misses 'Babblin's'

Dear Editor:

I am writing from Cleveland, Ohio. I always read The Winchester Sun online. I knew Mrs. Betty Ratliff Smith from her sister here in Cleveland. I grew up in Richmond and became her sister's pastor for several years. I met Mrs. Smith years ago when she visited our church. I faithfully read her columns and used a couple of them in my sermons. I congratulate her on her retirement.

I will miss the visits to Winchester and the surrounding area via her weekly writings.

Sincerely yours,

Rev. William Combs

Cleveland, Ohio

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