Taxes - Government takes your money by force, then spends it on whatever it wants.
End result: You don't spend your money on what you want.
Tax Credits - Government threatens to take your money by force, unless you spend it on something the government likes.
End result: You don't spend your money on what you want, but you think you did.
You got that right! Coercion in its most insidious form. As everyone else has been saying, it sounds like one of Al Gore's schemes.
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