Ideas for your unneeded stimulus check

A recent letter to The Gazette suggested if you get a stimulus check and don't need the money, send it back to the government ('Give back your stimulus and defeat the socialists,” March 11). The purpose? To punish, insult and get even with the Democrats for their 'wastefulness and wanton spending,” i.e. make them look foolish. Don't do that!

The only people you'll punish are the unfortunate secretaries who open the mail and have to decide where to route your check.

Instead, if you really don't need the money, donate it to the places that do need it - the HACAP Food Bank, Trees Forever, your local school foundation, your church, Matthew 25, Mission of Hope, Meals on Wheels, an animal shelter, area colleges, various museums, your local hospital, the Nature Center, The History Center, a community library, Theatre Cedar Rapids, or the myriad other businesses, human service agencies and places that enrich our lives and respond to physical and mental needs caused by the COVID and the storm.

Giving to others and doing good will make you far happier than ridiculing and embarrassing the government.

Kay E. Graber

Mount Vernon