The great thing about posts is it spurs me to look stuff up. The PEW Center offers this: “tax expenditures” – government lingo for tax breaks – that come in the form of exemptions, deductions, credits and other special provisions" (notice "credits"). And they go on "...The biggest individual tax break was for employer-paid health care, health insurance, long-term care insurance...at  an estimated $145.5 billion.
"Economists and tax analysts tend to use the term “tax expenditures” because such special-purpose breaks are effectively the same as direct spending". So while SOME of the rich rail against government spending, their tax breaks are govt. expenditures they have no trouble with.
"... more than two-thirds of the value of the deduction for charitable contributions goes to taxpayers with incomes of $200,000 or more."
Let's be fair: "Low-income people, who pay relatively little income tax, can’t take full advantage of many breaks. One exception is the earned-income tax credit..."