Posted on 04/14/2014 1:35:52 AM PDT by South40
A Slate columnist argues that childless Americans should pony up some more cash for taxes and that parents should get a bigger break.
Nonparents should pay higher taxes so that lower- and middle-income parents can receive a much-deserved tax break. That's the proposal of conservative Slate.com columnist Reihan Salam.
"The willingness of parents to bear and nurture children saves us from becoming an economically moribund nation of hateful curmudgeons. The least we can do is offer them a bigger tax break," Salam, who is childless, said.
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“it would not surprise me (if I live a few years longer) if they rounded up whites (especially males) and put them in internment camps so the GREAT SOCIETY could advance without obstruction.”
They don’t have to; they’re disappearing on their own due to birthrates.
I get it. It’s better to have a bunch of hypocrites calling themselves conservatives screaming to get government out of their lives while gleefully asking for their welfare handouts so they can out breed the other welfare recipients. Glad I finally got that straight.
No, it is just that with everyone’s expectations nobody can “afford” children. Keeping waiting for the right time; your child can be the only English-speaker in his/her class at school...
Have all the kids you want. Just don’t go thinking that doing so entitles you to take a rock out of your backpack and stuff it into mine.
“Have all the kids you want. Just dont go thinking that doing so entitles you to take a rock out of your backpack and stuff it into mine.”
No worries; I’ve assured my children that people of your mindset will never be rocks in their backpacks. You can carry your own, including when you are older.
My issue isn’t with your kids, but nice way to use them as a bullet stop for your collectivist argument. My issue is with you wanting me to subsidize your choices.
My kids aren’t bullet-stoppers for anyone; just don’t expect them to give a hoot when some Third World behemoth repeated cleans your bedpan with your face in your old age. Choices have consequences.
How big of a check should I cut you? Seriously, I would like to know the price you want from me so you can whelp out a litter for the purpose of out breeding some other racial group. Put a dollar amount out of how much I owe you so you can choose to start a family. Don’t hide behind government taxing power and the catch-all “...for the children” bullshit. You want to have people put a gun to my head and the heads of others to subsidize you so you can have kids. Let’s just cut out the middle man and tell me what you think I owe you.
Keep your money; my kids and I will keep our freedom of any obligation to you.
I once asked the two spinster sisters living next to me growing up if it bothered them to pay taxes for the schools.
They said “Oh no! If I want the future of America to be as good as it was for me, I want you kids to get good educations, etc.”
Made sense to me then. Now, when I see the waste involved, I have willed myself to vote NO on any school budget increases. With all of the fancy open architecture, pavilions and stuff at the 2-year old local high school, they are already saying they are “out-of-room” and need to add on! (Not to mention the sculptures, the award winning home-econ area with four complete, state of the art industrial stainless steel kitchens, four assistant principals, etc.)
No, really...you’re all for having to tax man take it from by force to give to you. You don’t get to issue me a waiver. It’s a nice layer of insulation to make you feel better about enriching yourself at the cost of others.
I’ve never endorsed any re-distribution at all; my tribe doesn’t cost you anything, and I’ve been paying income taxes for 30 years at this point. The flip side is that we don’t owe anybody anything (including you).
So you just want to force me and others to subsidize people other than you who choose to have kids, right?
I don’t want to force you to subsidize anyone; keep as much of your money as you can (via legal avenues, of course). The games the gubmint will play with Social Security to keep it solvent (like the current “there is no inflation” charade to keep payments down) are warning enough for anyone who thinks they’ll ever get a return on their “contributions” to the gubmint pot.
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