[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.

[BobL]

“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. “

I wouldn’t argue that, at all. In fact it would be great if we could literally pay wives to stay home and raise kids. In the past, they basically had no choice. But now the high-power career world temps them...and the kids pay.

My problem is with welfare queens getting paid to produce more kids...I don’t want to anything to increase those incentives - they’re bad enough already. Two-worker families are also not so hot, but their kids generally come out much better than welfare queens.