How anyone but a prog can label welfare for those seeking to pay less in taxes is beyond me. Welfare applies to deadbeats (aka parasites and others who pay no taxes, don’t work, and make no contribution to society) and the prog notion that allowing taxpayers a bit of relief is hardly welfare.
Any industry that lobbies the government for a special tax break favoring its customers (while the rest of the economy pounds sand) is part of the problem, not part of the solution.