Providing child tax benefits to low-income parents without earnings may not substantially reduce their employment, suggests a new NBER working paper, Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California by Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore.
There are people who will poo poo anything that smells like the government doing anything for the less fortunate that may cost the more fortunate a few cents each.