What does $900 cost?

The Tax Bonus payments are hitting bank accounts and mailboxes.  Some of them are making their way into the shopping malls; an inordinate proportion into the pokies; and the bulk of them, it seems, into debt reduction or that very old-fashioned thing, saving.  What about yours? 

The idea was that these payments would stimulate the economy.  The idea was tried in the   United States last year, where it was found that clearly $600 per taxpayer was not enough.  So we have tried it with $900 – even as the IMF, of all organisations, have come out and said that it