Get the Tax Refund You Deserve?
February 27, 2017
A recent water bill included an insert promoting the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). “Were you employed at least one day last year? Get the tax refund you deserve for FREE!” said the insert. The insert gave a website listing 30 free tax preparation sites throughout central Florida. Does anyone “deserve” to receive the EITC? The EITC is a refundable tax credit. This means that you can get a refund of money that you never paid in. But does anyone “deserve” someone else’s money? Of course not. The EITC is a seasonal Republican welfare program, as I recently argued here.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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