with tax less income, who will also get a tax return .

In the past, I benefited from Unemployment Insurance a couple of times.

And my daughter has benefited from a government grant to earn her master's degree.

When I was a junior in high school, my grades were good and we were still poor so I benefited from a program that paid me to attend night classes at college. It wasn't much, of course, just a little incentive.

That made a big difference in my life.
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The first is things that reduce payments.

The second is money or benefits paid to you.

Mixing them assumes that man's natural state is to pay taxes, and any income we don't pay is somehow money that the government has denied itself. In a free society where the government is of, by, and for the people, it is not the case that we keep income because the government is being kind and gracious to us.

I've seen people who are more convinced that payments from the government are more properly theirs by right than money earned by others that the government has deigned not to collect. That we must justify the failure to exact the maximum amount of tax revenue but it's not all that important to justify expenditures of government money.

hard to imagine a republican introducing any of these as bills, but has anyone done that research?

would be interesting.

a bit like knowing the list of things we take for granted now that were the doing of labor unions.

Gosh, I'm in the 1%!

But I benefit indirectly from nearly all of it, 'cause without it we'd have a lot more hungry, uneducated, pissed off people and I might wind up getting attacked by one of them when I'm walking home from the convenience store with a quart of beer.