When we post on social media platforms we don't pay to use the service, but we do agree to follow their terms and conditions: we allow [the company] to use our content and metadata (goods/services) for marketing purposes and allow them to send us targeted ads; to them this is FAR MORE VALUABLE than money.
When the Dept. of Treasury sends me money the question I ask is, what are the terms and conditions of accepting this money and what good or service am I agreeing to provide in exchange for it? Because it's not free, I don't do favors, and I'm Super Straight.
I'm rich by no stretch of the imagination but hear me out: this is the start of faggoty bullshit we were warned would grow up around us and deprive us of all property until our children wake up homeless on the continent our forefathers conquered.
Seriously consider what you're doing by accepting "free" money. You are writing a blank check to some very sketchy characters in exchange for $1,400. This is peak gimme dat clown world mentality.
You've been warned.
So you don't pay taxes?
Yeah I do, but I'm not getting what you mean by that.
I'm just saying it's ridiculous for OP to say that citizens are "writing a blank check" to someone, when money was direct deposited in said citizens' accounts, despite their objections to the "covid" / "stimulus" bill.
I agree
money was in fact deposited in my account. I called my bank and told them, I did not authorize these transactions. The money was wired back within days and two months later checks came in the mail. Still haven't opened them.
Strangely, our bank is refusing to do anything one way or another with the money for about a week. Not sure what that's all about. On what you said, I admire your stalwart stance pede, I really do... but I don't see how it practically changes anything.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/valuable_consideration
https://thelawdictionary.org/valuable-consideration/
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Valuable+Consideration