Would people allow for stopping Earned Income Credit at least....I mean that is 100 percent welfare if you ask me.
I think we need a welfare office that collects all the various bits and pieces of welfare and analyzes them. That includes Earned Income Credit, food stamps, WIC, medicaid, etc.
And any program that is meant to be an insurance program should be run like one with separate reporting.
Absolutely, it is welfare.
I remember when it got started years ago. I filled out my 1040 and I was a little bewildered by this Earned Income “Credit” business, so I called the IRS to get a comprehensible explanation.
After listening to a torrent of euphemism and goverment BS, I cut the guy off and flat-out asked him: “You are describing welfare. If there is no tax owed after deductions and exemptions (that was a rotten year), what is there to ‘credit?’”
He finally admitted that it was a type of welfare and income redistribution though he sounded like it was killing him to say it.