What you do with an extra $40 in your paycheck?

lunch 4 days a week

It depends. Do I want to eat or do I need gas!

Are you serious? I just want a paycheck!

pay off my credit card and student debt

Bail out more banks, give it to the military, increase Congressman's benefits and kickbacks, more oil company incentives, more drug company incentives. Whatever you do don't create incentives for job creation, job retraining, education, infrastructure projects and home subsidies. Oh we should also maybe start some other military "engagement" since Afghanistan is winding down, maybe help the Federal Reserve to create ever larger banks and support ever larger multi-national corporations with less restrictions on campaign contributions, try to increase the wealth of the rich for that trickle down theory for real capitalism to create that truly steep pyramid of false equality.

In essence, just let's go back to serfs and fiefdoms like in the feudal ages, instead of this hidden slavery through debt.

The headline in this article is not really correct. It is not really an extra $40 in ones paycheck, it is maintaining what one has been receiving. Perhaps the question should be what would one do with $40 less in one's paycheck. That really was the issue of the payroll tax cut.

pays for gas so I can get to work, collect a paycheck less taxes which are used to bailout the billionaires

Spend it on beer then back to being exploited with negative economical monetary value?

You have to remind me... what is "Money" again?

what paycheck? if I had an extra $40 I'd get a monthly T-Pass on discount and get coffee for a week.

If I had an extra $40 in my paycheck I would donate it to donorschoose.org. I already support teachers in my neighborhood through this great site and I know they could stretch $80 bucks a month more than I could.

I'd use it for gas for an entire week. It is a big bucks for as long as I am concerned. I'm part of the middle class!!!!!

Seeds . . . . . from Amsterdam!

Eat.

Go shopping or pay some bills with it.

Buy organic veggies and lettuce .

drugs. while I drive . Merry Christmas !

Pay my power bill.

Use it to buy over priced groceries.

Donate it to a community organisation that directly helps those in need.

Paycheck?

Am I the only one who recognizes this as trickle down? Dip your fingers into the bucket and flick it onto the 99%, then take the whole bucket and present it to the 1% Thanks Obama, you have truly lived up to my expectations.

Not a damn thing. It won't pay my mortgage, it won't pay my utilities. It might feed me for a week if I skimp on the groceries. I think the best thing to do is to gamble it away on the lottery because that's the only shot I will have of making it ever having a chance to be useful!

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm, GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, well, it will probably go towards helping my daughter and her family pay bills since her husband has been out of work forever. That was a tough question.

why don't you interview all progressive candidates running for congress

Buy DICE ! RPG grognards unite !

I won't be buying Gillete Odor Shield products.

I'd rather it went back into the Social Security funds. The payroll tax holiday was never a good idea in the first place. It was meant to be a one-time jolt to the economy - back when we were in desperate straits - AND it was meant to be passed IN CONJUNCTION with several other measures, including unemployment insurance extension and federal jobs bills that would have CREATED JOBS for people and put the economy back on track. The GOP blocked everything but this one little thing, which didn't do very much and now they're all hyperventilating about extending it. Ridiculous!

very very very cheap prostitutes - amputees mostly,...or violently insane mad eyed toothless knife wielding street people speaking in tongues.

( a greenback just doesn't go as far as it used to )

i understand the country's frustration with washington's stalemate. they can't decide on anything. $40 unfortunately doesn't feel like much-- except long overdue and faulty compromise.