You buy a Tesla.
The government arranges for you to have $7500 that would otherwise have been in the Treasury.
Does it matter if they arrange that by giving you a tax credit, cutting you a check, or delivering 750,000 pennies on the back of an elephant?
That is just the mechanism. The important fact is that you have money that would have been in the Treasury if you had not jumped through the hoop.
Welfare is Welfare. Get over it. If you want to take the money, take it. Nobody will stop you. You might even be able to talk yourself into feeling good about yourself, as if taking the money out of the Treasury makes you a better person.
Just don’t expect anybody else to be convinced by your rationalizations.
You could say the same about any tax-reduction plan.
Heck, you could apply the same argument to ALL income: every dollar you earn COULD be in the Treasury, save for the government granting you “welfare” in the form of letting you keep it; after all, they could just take your whole d@mn paycheck and then delivering your “fair share” in pennies on the back of an elephant. A whole lotta Leftists think that way. Are you a Leftist?
It’s MY money. I needed a new car; GA and US gov’ts gave me a tax reduction on the condition that I got an EV instead of an ICE, because “the people” decided that society would benefit more from me driving that instead of sending the tax money to the Treasury under compulsion.
I’m inclined to conclude that anyone objecting to such non-refundable tax credits really isn’t interested in lowering taxes, being jealous of those who have their taxes reduced and not being screwed as equally as others. Ya know who clamors for equalizing misery, largely thru the process of high taxation? Leftists.
The “delivering 750,000 pennies on the back of an elephant” option strikes me as being an overly expensive method for welfare payments. I’d drop that one from the list.
;-)