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Re:This is a teenager by naniwaduni on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:12PM (#40057291)
We have a tax rate with negative tax rates at the low end of the scale. For sketchy social policy/political tenability reasons it doubles as a child subsidy and phases in up to a nominal amount of preexisting so-called earned income, but functionally that's what the earned income tax credit is.

Expansion of the EITC program is fairly well-regarded among economists and has been historically quite popular! We should do more of it!

Re:This is a teenager by Misdicorl on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:18PM (#40057351)
True. It would be nice to decouple it from children and expand its scope of economic impact dramatically.