I don’t believe in government “charity” but to the extent we have it, it should be inverse.
Single people should get X total.
A married couple should get 3X total.
A married couple with 1 child should get 2X total.
A married couple with 2 children should get X total.
A married couple with 3 children get nothing at all.
And X, by the way, should never be a large number.
I do not believe in any greater government money benefit to individuals, married or not, due to dependent children.
Yes, having children is a good for society, but I believe the basic investment for it has to be from the parents, not the government.
Dependency on government is not a strength, its a weakness suggesting the recipient has obtained obligations on themselves before preparing to take on those obligations.
An increasing enterprise of government dependency, reflecting a weakness of individuals, makes the nation weaker, not stronger. It should be discouraged, not encouraged. Payments should always be bare minimums, not the most maximum, or else individual initiative will be perpetually overcome by good enough government dependency.
Why should the guvmint care if you’re married, one way or the other?
Libtards used that to drive a bullshiite ‘right to marriage’ in the 14th amendment.