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Originally Posted by JohnJMS
How is giving people a tax credit, and poor people a larger tax credit - redistributing taxes from the rich to the poor?
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Maybe I am wrong. I was assuming that the revenue lost would be made up somewhere else, so that the oft-cited deficit doesn't grow even larger.
Politically maybe they want to force the administration to raise taxes / cut social spending elsewhere / have a larger deficit to explain though.