Tax policies and government spending are used to encourage or discourage certain behaviors within society and can be considered instruments of social policy, said Wendy Damron, external relations manager at Citizens for Self Governance Charleston and the district captain for the South Carolina Convention of States Project. There are some favors and loopholes in the tax law that cater specifically to certain groups and certain constituencies, as well as carve-outs for a lot of different things, Damron said in an interview on The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program. Big corporations can afford to pay lobbyists to influence lawmakers to write tax laws that favor them, but it impacts small businesses that get stuck paying more taxes to compensate for the big ones that received the favors, Damron said. This is why big corporations love big government, she added. “They can afford to sort of steer things to favor them and kind of …