[Rembrandt]

I think you’re right. Obama DOES want every parent to work, especially in a dead end 3 hour per day Circle K type job, then bitch about the lack of health care. It’s all part of the plan, the final solution, if you will.

[USNBandit]

This isn't so much about changing behavior as it is getting more people out of paying taxes. I make $100k a year with a stay at home wife and our three kids. With the mortgage interest tax deduction and three tax credits, I don't pay that much in taxes. If they even doubled the child tax credit I would pay an exceptionally low amount in federal taxes.

It is vitally important for everybody with earnings to pay something in federal taxes. Not for the revenue, but because people that pay taxes don't like federal spending. People that don't pay taxes like federal spending and vote for people like Obama.

This is why the Bush tax cuts were a good idea, done poorly. Lowering the low end marginal rates took many people off the tax rolls completely. That encourages support of government spending. The same is true of expanding Medicaid for the ACA.