Thread by @donmoyn

The US keeps asking its tax agency to oversee stuff it is not designed, funded or wants to do, like welfare (EITC) or health (ACA). We do this b/c of an unhealthy desire to hide the welfare state in tax expenditures instead of building the admin infrastructure necessary..

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1372687922206552064

One cool thing about the history of Social Security is that when it was set up it had very few employees and no offices and had to enroll 26M people in a very short space of time. So they used the Post Office to do so - trusted brand, physical locations everywhere.

There may be technical issues I don't understand here in terms of the advantages of IRS data, but if Biden wants a child tax credit to become a permanent children's allowance, he should be transitioning it to SSA, which has the closest equivalent task and skills.

This is the counterargument for why the IRS should be the one standing up the children's allowance (thread)

https://twitter.com/SethHanlon/status/1372976165825212421?s=20