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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 1933320" data-attributes="member: 13624">A principled argument could be made either way.  Money is fungible; if a particular tax is ordinarily due, and the government says "you don't have to pay this," then what is the realistic difference between collecting the tax and sending the taxpayer a cheque, and simply not collecting the tax?  The taxpayer still has the same amount of money, the government has the same amount of money; what changes in the end?This is why we need a much simpler tax code, and a far less powerful government.  Government shouldn't have the ability to give subsidies, to pick winners and losers.</blockquote>