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while I flagged the article; it is after all more election year drivel; the primary reason people take offense at equating tax breaks with welfare is that welfa
by Shivetya 11y ago
while I flagged the article; it is after all more election year drivel; the primary reason people take offense at equating tax breaks with welfare is that welfare requires no effort on the receiver to contribute to the system whereas a tax break is relief from the taking by government of your work.
Or worded another way, welfare is assumed to be given to those who are not productive members of society while a tax break is considered to be a reduction in taking from a productive member.
- ThomPete 11y agoIt's not that simple though. The idea with the welfare system is that if people for a number of reasons suddenly is without a job there is a system to support them and hopefully help them back on track again. So paying taxes is in many ways a collective insurance system. Some people never needs it, good for them. Some have lived on it their whole life, bad for them. But some might have paid taxes their whole life and is now cashing in on that.