That is not the framing of the article, it's a key argument made in the second answer: "Budget experts and many policymakers (including Republicans such as [Ho

That is not the framing of the article, it's a key argument made in the second answer: "Budget experts and many policymakers (including Republicans such as [House Speaker] Paul Ryan) consider targeted tax breaks as being similar to actual government spending." Unfortunately this is not expanded upon, but its eminently reasonable. If you don't like this way of talking about it, the argument becomes that they make the tax system more regressive than it appears to be. So by claiming that there is some "framing" going on instead of engaging with the actual argument that is _explixitly stated_ you're only preventing discussion and analysis on the systemic origins of inequality.