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Originally Posted by Normal
So use taxes as a tool to eliminate poverty? That isn’t what taxes are intended for. They are intended to fund the government that collects them, nothing more or less. They certainly aren’t intended for subjective agendas.
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That may have been the case a long time ago.
Currently, the federal individual income tax is structured so that the poor owe little or no income tax. In addition, tax credits—primarily the earned income tax credit (EITC) and the refundable portion of the child tax credit, called the additional child tax credit (ACTC)—increase the disposable income of many low-income taxpayers who work and have children.
This has reduced poverty.
Poverty and the Tax Code : Democracy Journal