Posted on 02/16/2022 6:01:45 AM PST by Kaslin
He is right but I am fairly certain the bill will not address the elephant in the room which is irresponsible women who have no interest in their being a father in the picture and consider him only as a sperm donor and a court ordered ATM. These women often have children by several men.
and this is not a new societal problem.
I friend of mine, dead now, told a story of his policing days 40 years ago and on his days off was asked to accompany female social service workers who had to go into rough places in the city to interview welfare recipients - not in uniform, of course.
He told of going into homes in which there would be four, five or more children each with a different father. The mother drew welfare payments for each child plus sued the fathers and received payments for non-support.
In other words, the woman made a pretty good business out of having children.
Here it is - these do not have a racial break-down:
“(CNSNews.com) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that there were 3,613,647 births registered in the United States in 2020 and that 1,464,121 of these—or 40.5 percent—were to unmarried mothers.
“The percentage of all births to unmarried women was 40.5% in 2020,” said the CDC’s “Births: Final Data for 2020” report.
The CDC also reported that 42.0% percent of births in the United States in 2020 were covered by government-funded Medicaid.”
I never will either. Your kids are smart and ahead of the curve.
Good point. Reagan brought it up already in A Time for Choosing.
So FLA is getting rid of all forms of welfare and bringing back soup lines?
...and YOU get to support them!
My maiden aunt who had been a state legislator and was very liberal (for the time) had a black lady servant (who by the way received equal inheritances with my aunt’s nieces) who told her support for unwed mothers was destroying marriage in her community. It gave her pause, but didn’t change my aunt’s mind. My parents were divorced, but my father came out on weekends (except during the war), took up walking and shooting and read to us in the evenings. Books that interested him I think; I remember lots of Dickens and “Windsor Castle” by Ainsworth that my brother and I ,as preteens, enjoyed.
Since fixing taxes isn’t an option now, I’ll work within existing stuff.
Make the child tax credit, and other similar credits/deductions, as a tiered item. Single filers, are only eligible for up to 40% of the total credit. Joint filing is required to receive the full thing.
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