The problem is that the leftists, in order to buy votes, have gotten the “takers” to think they are ENTITLED to other people’s money through redistribution. Part of the way they do it is with inaccurate, but more palatable labels, such as the child ”tax credit,” when it many instances they are not just getting a full refund on their taxes, but thousands of dollars in addition Of OPM.
Take a family of five (married parents and three kids under six) with an income of $50,000. Their total federal tax liability, after filing jointly, is around $3,000, but due to Biden’s expanded tax “credit” of 2021, they get their $3,000 back, and a deposit into their account of around $8,000.
Is this $8,000 a refund on their taxes? Of course not. But yet the mother will quit her 15-hour part-time job because she got a really big tax-free “tax credit” - with the implication that it’s money owed her. Would she be as willing to quit her job if she had to say to herself, or others, that she “could quit her job because [she] got a lot of welfare.”
Lets start calling these programs what they are: Government Charity Programs. It’s a first step in halting the ever-growing entitlement attitude that lower-income people are entitled to other people’s money.
Take a family of five (married parents and three kids under six) with an income of $50,000. Their total federal tax liability, after filing jointly, is around $3,000, but due to Biden’s expanded tax “credit” of 2021, they get their $3,000 back, and a deposit into their account of around $8,000.
Is this $8,000 a refund on their taxes? Of course not. But yet the mother will quit her 15-hour part-time job because she got a really big tax-free “tax credit” - with the implication that it’s money owed her. Would she be as willing to quit her job if she had to say to herself, or others, that she “could quit her job because [she] got a lot of welfare.”
Lets start calling these programs what they are: Government Charity Programs. It’s a first step in halting the ever-growing entitlement attitude that lower-income people are entitled to other people’s money.