They want that tax money so they can hand it out to their pet groups so they can get some of it back in the form of campaign contributions in order to seal their power as the ruling party in perpetuity.
That’s all this was ever about. Redistribute the wealth by taking it from the middle class and giving it the ne-er do wells and taking their cut in the process.
It’s no different from the way the Mafia operated for years. It’s just a big shakedown.