You get your "stimulus check" which came from your taxes... That you then spend and it gets taxed again. So they take your money... Then give back a small amount... Then take it again.
If you want to hear a really stupid one look into stuff like government bonds. You loan the government money, they pay you interest, then they tax your interest earnings. Now it has to go through the whole layer of bureaucracy to get that small bit back, probably costing more in the process than what it would generate in revenue.
They could simply just reduce the interest rate from the start for the same effect without all the hoops.
You get your "stimulus check" which came from your taxes... That you then spend and it gets taxed again. So they take your money... Then give back a small amount... Then take it again.
If you want to hear a really stupid one look into stuff like government bonds. You loan the government money, they pay you interest, then they tax your interest earnings. Now it has to go through the whole layer of bureaucracy to get that small bit back, probably costing more in the process than what it would generate in revenue.
They could simply just reduce the interest rate from the start for the same effect without all the hoops.