Will these same people be grousing when the children do not want to pay for their social security benefits?
I like to think that children are the youngest Americans.
bttt
Good. Then I'll stop funding public schools.
Great! When can I expect a check for all the property taxes I paid to school YOUR children?
What about people who have tried for years to have children but face infertility problems? Please don't tell me "just adopt" when adoption can run 20-30k from a so called "non-profit" agency.
I am not going to have children, so why do I have to pay school taxes that I will never use?
Folks who know me get on their knees and thank God I never procreated.
Wonder why.
I have children, I love children, but the logic here seems a little twisted. Children are expensive, and they certainly don't guarantee any sort of financial return. And childless people certainly don't get a free ride as far as finanically supporting other people's children.
I think articles such as these portend a disturbing trend. I can envision social unrest as the demographic bomb goes off and everyone starts looking around for who's going to pay for the aging population. Things could get very ugly in a couple of decades, methinks.
Dasher, check this out.
An interesting thought on all this: the fags fit into this same description perfectly. It’s just one more reason to de-legitimize the homosexual lifestyle.
I'm sure the childless people who have been paying taxes for years to send other peoples' kids to school might have some disagreement with this statement.
I don't disagree that we need to get out of our post-Feminist reproductive malaise. Too many good, productive people were tricked into pursuing their careers in the 70s and 80s rather than starting families. Many others didn't have kids out of fear for the future. The result is a declining population growth among our societies' most productive demographic groups.
But some of the statements here are kind of extreme, and I don't see any point in that.
I'll remember that "steaming pile" of a statement when I'm writing my check on April 17th.
Oh puhleez... I have no children and I've been paying out for other people all my life, both in taxes and taking care of parents, a spouse who was disabled for 12 years, etc. I'm pro-children. I'm not complaining. But step down off the soapbox and get a grip.
I would be against taxing one set of citizens to pay others to have children, however, I would have not problem with lowering the tax burden on people with children.
Business can deduct a lof of their expenses, parents should also be allowed to deduct more of the expenses involved with raising children.
(For those that do not see the difference between paragraph one and two, I do not want the governement to pay someone to have children, however, let productive individuals keep more of what they earn themselves.)
I have two words in response: Up yours.
Oh really? Who the hell are you all sanctimonious one?
I'm childless not because I chose that, but because it just never happened. People like you piss me off almost more than feminists.