Not in New York. Lower income people get heating relief welfare. People who pay the taxes do not. Talk about compounding the problem, Biden pushes energy prices higher then prints money for non-taxpayers to get to pay their heating bills. Why not produce more energy and drive the prices down for everyone? The problem with big government is that they spend too much, they pay off everyone and "own" them, including our institutions that rely on gov't subsidies. I say go to a 10% flat tax and a balanced budget requirement except for a Congressionally declared war.
If we went to a flat tax how would the government pit one group against the other? Stop making sense!