Child tax credits are one thing. The same credit is offered to a couple making a quarter of a million a year as a couple making $40,000 a year. It is tax law as much as paying the income tax rate. But, on the other hand, the Earned Income Tax Credit is akin to welfare as someone who has a zero tax rate, and pays not a dime in taxes, is entitled to receive a check from the government via the EITC with his tax return. Same principal applies to government college aid. If someone is demanding that others not accept welfare they are legally entitled to accept, they themselves ought to forgo claiming the EITC or a PELL grant.
That being said, it isn’t contradictory for the same person to oppose government laws offering food stamps, welfare, WIC and Section 8 at the generous levels it is offered, and yet at the same time take advantage of those very laws he wishes to abolish by accepting those very entitlement programs at levels he opposes its existence. As long as its the law of the land and on the books he is fully legally and morally entitled to accept what’s offered, and what he and his family and friends are forced to pay taxes for. At the same time he advocates for its abolishment (from being so generous.)