Posted on 03/06/2006 7:12:09 AM PST by FreedomSurge
PING!!!
They shouldn't.
Add to that:
Ann Coulter, Laura Ingram, and Condi Rice have no kids. Are they freeloaders too?
Well, by your reasoning, the welfare mom, living on the dole, who has 5 kids should get to vote several times.
Think, FreedomSurge....Think!
I know it's hard, but do try.
There are lots of ups and downs, no matter what choice you make. Parents have greater expenses and greater heartaches when their offspring are growing up, but they can expect some degree of support from those offspring in old age.
Childless people have more money as the result, but they don't have the social buffer zone that kids provide. But knowing that, they often put away enough money to ensure their prosperity in their old age.
And ya have to. I don't want to have to depend on this guy's kids when I'm old.
"I am not going to have children, so why do I have to pay taxes I will never use?"
Answer: Who paid to educate you?--AND, Do you really wish to live in a society where the great unwashed masses run the streets in ignorance?
I've already shot down the various fallacies in your argument. It is dishonest of you to pretend that it can simply rise again intact, like the phoenix.
It is too bad to see more and more articles like this that frame the subject of family decisions purely in terms of economics.
If people decide to have or not to have children purely based on finances and status - then that is a major problem right there.
I see posters have decided this is a social security vs. public education fight.
Everyone is going to be worse off if our nation does not continue to thrive in all areas - economically,educationally, socially, and spiritually.
It is impossible to have hope for any nation that does not produce children. That is - fewer entrepeneurs, fewer scientists, fewer inventions, fewer doctors/police/teachers.
People who complain about paying for education will have less and less to complain about as the number of kids in school drops.
This shrinking pool of younger Americans will carry the burden for the growing pool of elderly Americans.
This is not an adversarial situation - we are all in this together.
The cost of raising a chlld far exceeds any tax benefit that child generates.
That is an even more compelling reason why the public school system, and the taxes stolen to support it, shoudl be abolished.
Since I pay school taxes, but have no children -- and thusly haven't benefited from that tax -- I take the very opposite view.
"For this reason, the deliberate choice to exclude children from marriage is one of the grounds for declaring a marriage null in the Catholic Church."
Wow! I'm sure glad my wife and I aren't Catholics then. When is the RCC going to make anullment mandatory for childless couples? I hadn't heard that they were.
Further, all those priests, there. They are all childless. The nuns, too. I guess they're a waste of air, too.
Thomas Aquinas would be ashamed of your logical processes.
Fine, so my marriage is not a true one. Big deal we lived together for 6 years before we got married anyway. It is my choice not to become pregnant.
"For this reason, the deliberate choice to exclude children from marriage is one of the grounds for declaring a marriage null in the Catholic Church."
I agree, but newsflash...not everyboy is Catholic.
"Since I pay school taxes, but have no children -- and thusly haven't benefited from that tax -- I take the very opposite view."
Yeah. And how about that tax credit that goes to people with children, even if they didn't earn enough to pay taxes? I pay that sucker through my taxes. Phooey!
The article also ASSUMES one child families.
What about the Aunt and Uncle?
What about the single and looking?
The only direct "burden" people are the homsexuals.
How about people who can't get pregnant - are they freeloaders with no purpose to marry?
What a hunk of junk.
"I agree, but newsflash...not everyboy is Catholic.
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Not everygirl, either. [grin]
Don't check the grammar!
I have made a choice to not have children and I am tired of getting crap from certain over zealous factions here about it!
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