“Children of tax-PAYERS are more likely to be future tax-PAYERS, producers, not a demand for entitlements.”
You seem to have a logical contradiction here. By tripling tax deductions for children or, heaven forbid, tripling the child tax credits, Santorum would turn tax-PAYERS into tax-FREELOADERS.
Tripling the exemption would mean a family with 4 children would pay no income tax on the first $66,000 of income not even counting any of their other deductions. A family like Santorum’s own, with 7 kids, would have to earn over $100,000 before they owed a dime in federal income tax.
Children raised by parents who never owed taxes are unlikely to support smaller government when they expect to duck out of paying for big government by shifting their tax burden just like their parents did.
No I have not. You have conflated two separate issues: deductions for children and bracketing of tax rates. They are separate. Just because the deduction takes a payer at current rates down to zero total, does not mean that the deduction is bad policy.
Children raised by parents who never owed taxes are unlikely to support smaller government when they expect to duck out of paying for big government by shifting their tax burden just like their parents did.
I agree that most everyone should pay some tax.
