The Check is in the Mail

Is this really neccesary?

WASHINGTON (AP)- At a cost of nearly $42 million, the IRS wants you to know: Your check is almost in the mail. The Internal Revenue Service is spending the money on letters to alert taxpayers to expect rebate checks as part of the economic stimulus plan.

Keith Hennessey, director of the president's National Economic Council, said the letters are being sent to explain how the tax rebates will work. "Any time you do something as a government tens of millions of times, there is ample room for people to get confused. And so if you're going to have tens of millions of taxpayers getting checks, you want to get the information out so that you have as few people as possible confused about what's happening, they understand what's coming, and it reduces the number of incoming requests that IRS and Treasury have to figure out how to deal with it," said Hennessey.

Oh ya that makes it alot clearer, thanks Kieth. Being from Iowa it is so easy to get Cornfused!