As for Refundable Tax Credits.
Lets be clear what those are, instead of someone paying taxes they are given money from the government.
That money comes from somewhere.
That somewhere is someone else.
So you are taking money that Paul earned to give Joe.
That is called re-distribution.
In simple terms the word is socialism.
Now of course the justification for that is “The wealthy have enough”.
In other words I have the ability to determine how much money is enough. And once I have determined that I have the ability to take the rest of their money.
The basis of such thinking is a) Jealousy b) THe feeling that somehow your needs justify you taking from someone else.
And from a practical matter it is simply wrong.
The current Democratic economic proposals would hit the frum Jewish community hardest of all/
We cannot use many of the services we are taxed into paying, yet the taxes make a middle class life un-affordable resulting in the need for numerous tzedakas for Yom Tov, Chasunahs etcc. Yet the higher tax cuts on the wealthy will dry p the source of funds for those tzedakas.