"....families vulnerable to the inevitability of rising costs."

Government bureaucracy is a hungry beast that seems never to be satiated.

The way the US tax system has been manipulated by the wealthy whereby the wealthy class pays less of their earnings than the poor with a variety of exemptions, write-offs, shell corporations, offshore tax shelters, capital gains tax of 15% while a wage earner pays 35%, and mortgage interest reduction whereby homeowners pay less tax than a renter, and the legal loopholes that make for an unjust tax system goes on and on....
The complexity and constantly changing tax system has generated a huge industry providing a sophisticated service of tax avoidance. The poor are less likely to avail themselves to these services.
It's a basic fact that there will be no justice without reforming and simplifying the unfairness of the present tax system. Thank you for bringing the subject to our attention!