“Everyone should pay their fair share.”
Everyone wants to be in the 1 %.
Everyone should pay 1 % personal Federal Income Tax, with NO exemptions.
Call it the “Basic Citizen Fair 1 % FIT.”
That really makes no sense when we’re also paying out EITC: they pay the tax and then we pay it back to them. The net effect is the same as it is currently.
If you’re talking about taking away the EITC in this economy, good luck. I think there are more productive things we could do to improve the economy that would take less political capital.