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So all of these two parent households are working because they'd rather not have that second car, really nice clothes, makeup, golf and getting their nails done? Two parent households don't exist in large numbers because neither parent is willing to make the sacrifice of staying home with their child or children. I am the daughter of immigrants whose parents went without in order to rear their children. As did many other lower middle class people of that era. If parents had the same goals today they would make the same choices.

I admire your family's willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of their children. However that has nothing to do with the government robbing your parents (and everyone else's) blind, forcing them to make sacrifices they shouldn't have to make. Stealing is ALWAYS wrong, not just when it's from people we like and that's what government does. You make it sound like the problem is just selfish, materialistic parents when it's actually relentless government thievery.

"I admire your family's willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of their children. However that has nothing to do with the government robbing your parents (and everyone else's) blind, forcing them to make sacrifices they shouldn't have to make.

My parents along with millions of other families would have had to still sacrifice with or without the tax burden you refer to as stealing. Sacrifice has always been part and parcel of the lower middle classes. To invert your assertion: Their sacrifice bore no relationship to the levy of taxes mandated by the feds.

Stealing is ALWAYS wrong, not just when it's from people we like and that's what government does.

In a system of government where every bloody citizen has the right to elect or not elect their rulers; there is no such thing as theft.

You make it sound like the problem is just selfish, materialistic parents

Bingo!

...when it's actually relentless government thievery

Again, you cannot steal from those free to elect their legislators. If you think it is theft; refuse to pay the levy and take whatever consequences befall that choice. That's how a person who thinks he's been robbed by the feds stands for principle. The founders sacrificed for their principles, and no less is required of you, if you truly believe you've been robbed and view yourself as oppressed.