One Thing that Is Not Being Discussed that Is in the GOP Tax Bills
December 5, 2017
One thing that is not being discussed (not even by libertarians) that is in the House and Senate GOP tax bills is the Earned Income Tax Credit. This giant welfare program is basically untouched in both bills. Yet, the refundable part of this credit should have been the first thing that was changed in the tax code. So, why wasn’t it? Because Republicans are welfare statists.
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.

