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A tax credit is not the same thing as a store having a sale. You are required by law to pay taxes. You are not required by law to buy things from a store. However, I do understand why you made the parallel, because both the store and the tax credit thing are trying to use an economic incentive to get people to do something. So while there is indeed a similarity between the two, they are not the same.
If you choose to not shop at a store, then the store does not get to keep any of your money. So the store isn't holding your money hostage. But with a tax credit, the government is holding your money hostage. The government says that you can have your money back, but only if you do what they tell you to do.
The only way that the store can get your money is if you choose, voluntarily, to give your money to the store in exchange for a product that you want. But the government can take your money from you without your permission. So the two things are very different.
It's true that nobody is forced to take any tax credits. But it's not accurate for Al Gore to label them as "tax cuts." They are not tax cuts.
I didn't think his speech was boring. I have never thought of Al Gore as being boring. I found his speech to be very scary. And whenever I am scared, I am not bored.
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