That is not the framing of the article, it&#x27;s a key argument made in the second answer:<p>&quot;Budget experts and many policymakers (including Republicans such as [House Speaker] Paul Ryan) consider targeted tax breaks as being similar to actual government spending.&quot;<p>Unfortunately this is not expanded upon, but its eminently reasonable. If you don&#x27;t like this way of talking about it, the argument becomes that they make the tax system more regressive than it appears to be.<p>So by claiming that there is some &quot;framing&quot; going on instead of engaging with the actual argument that is _explixitly stated_ you&#x27;re only preventing discussion and analysis on the systemic origins of inequality.