Who DOES benefit?I hope the article makes it perfectly clear. It benefits an entirely unnecessary government bureacracy - that's all.
What has surprised me lately is the boldness with which governments are taking from us. They have encouraged the balkanization of this nation (if not acted as outright agents provocateurs themselves) and then offered to mediate our differences - for a fee.
Whether the issue is child support, or drugs, or welfare, or education, or illegal immigration, or what-have-you, they sow the seeds of discord and then present themselves as our saviors here to solve the problem - but always for a price. Just as in Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches”, they’re in the “break-it-fix-it” business - only they never quite manage to fix anything.
Good article, Roger. I agree in principle that this tax is another government bureaucracy but not an unnecessary one. This is the first step in giving greedy and uncaring women a taste of the kind of government injustice fathers have been eating for the last 25 years. Unfortunately we can't grandfather it back to make the past crowd of greedy and uncaring female recipients of those gross injustices pay up in "arrears" (the government just loves to create false arrears for men).
What I see here is the first hint of what I've long been hoping for--that is, the government deciding that what's good for the goose is sauce for the gander. May this be just the beginning of females getting a good and long taste of how it is to have their entire lives being regulated (by financial means) by the government the way men (and the women who love them) have been treated for the last 25 years. After all this is the same bunch of liberated gals who wanted "equality." Well let them get it good and hard.
Let the feminists crow about how "wrong" this is. In the long haul it won't matter. If the government sees a profit for and a way to make a bigger government by taxing CS they will continue to do it and increase it and to hell with what the sensible shoe wearing feminist gang say. It's money that matters first and foremost in politics. I see this luxury tax (and with the amounts women receive in CS it IS a luxury they receive) as a blow for true equality and I applaud it.