> Trillions of dollars of tax revenue are being lost because capital gains doesn't count as income
Capital gains do count as income, just at a different rate if "long term." And there are one-time exemptions for real-estate gains, and other rules for exchanges.
This is the way the law works.
One's cheating, the other is legal. One is malicious and criminal, the other is someone following the law.
The law may be wrong. That doesn't mean people who follow it are bad. Change the law.
And put the people knowingly and falsely claiming EITC in jail where they belong.