[BobL]

Trust me, I have NO ISSUE with the child tax credit and agree with your rationale. My point was the refundability part. If it were the credit in general, I would have said “breeding” instead of “breathing”.

But I do know that there are many flat-taxers here who would love to see all incentives for having kids done away with...if you want to have kids, then it’s your problem. The fact that our birthrate, already too low, would be cut in half if we did that, simply cruises over their heads.

As to being refundable, I’d simply rather the incentive for having kids be favored towards net taxpayers, as I think they make more responsible parents.

[Arthur McGowan]

People had plenty of children before 1913, so: Repeal the 16th Amendment.

[Antoninus]

As to being refundable, I’d simply rather the incentive for having kids be favored towards net taxpayers, as I think they make more responsible parents.

I'm not sure that's true because many of those who are net taxpayers who can benefit from the credit are two income houses. And in my experience, such households--which consign their kids to daycare and leftist-run schools--are less likely to produce good conservative citizens.

If you want to get really politically incorrect, my feeling is that the credits would be most beneficial for society if they were offered primarily to families with only a working father and a stay-home mother. But then, I'm a throwback.