Tax the Childless
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Tax the Childless
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#2(onion.com) would be more appropriate for this nonsense idea.
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#3(onion.com) would be more appropriate for this nonsense idea.
We already tax the single. It would make sense to move that burden to the childless.
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#4Yeah, great idea. The single most important world problem we face is overpopulation. Why not make it easier to have children than it already is? Why not tax those who made the right choice and give the money to those who made the wrong one?
The Chinese have the right idea -- they encourage one child per family (an idea that works better in cities than in the countryside), against substantial public ignorance and resistance. If we adopted the opposite policy, we would once again show ourselves to be far behind the times.
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#5is this not already the case?
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Ten-Facts-about-the-Child-Tax-Credit
in effect, i don't see any real difference, the author is just asking for more of the same.
the author also assumes more children are a good thing. i think in the future people who look at china's one child policy as barbarism will change their mind.
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#6I'm not sure why government taxes should care whether someone has kids or not, it is your choice. If you can't afford to have kids, you probably shouldn't have kids.
It's easy to be in a painful situation and come to a conclusion "Things should work this way because that would benefit me". There are other things the government should do, such as tax breaks for students, and people with student loans - fostering growth and a successful youthful population is very nice. Tax breaks for people with a highschool education and better grades. Tax breaks for people who do community service, etc, etc...
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#7As a parent all I can say is: What a load of shite.
Enjoy your childless freedom, you have made the right choice. A child brings little joy to your life with eternal stress and worry and pain and sleepless nights and oh did I mention worry?
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#8Why was this posted here? What's the relevancy?
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#9I do pay more taxes than those with children. I take the extra cash amassed that I'm not spending on a family and I invest it or I spend it. Both add tax revenue. Across my investment properties I pay 35K in property taxes annually, then I pay income tax on income generated from rents across multiple units. I'll also pay sales taxes on those buildings when I sell them. Lastly, because I do not have any dependents, my tax bracket is set squarely in "are you mad?!?" range. I pay a lot of taxes.
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#10Yeah, great idea. The single most important world problem we face is overpopulation. Why not make it easier to have children than it already is? Why not tax those who made the right choice and give the money to those who made the wrong one? The Chinese have the right idea -- they encourage one child per family (an idea that works better in cities than in the countryside), against substantial public ignorance and resi…
> they encourage one child per family (an idea that works better in cities than in the countryside)
it is my impression that the specific form that "works better" takes is that it's extremely difficult to enforce in the countryside.