the assumption that childless couples pay more taxes is based on the fact that they probably have more income - duh. The child-tax credit (which I don't get because I don't make enough) is paltry compared to some of the more "creative" credits in the IRS forms.
Frankly, unless you extend that argument to include other "groups" then it is an empty argument. My taxes go to paying for bombs I don't approve of, civil service workers that I will never have need of and roads I may never in my life drive upon - so what?
Taxes go to pay for a lot of things that benefit the whole of society - would childfree couples prefer a lot of ignorant kids running around? Part of what they "pay" for is those "sprogs" to be housed seperately during daylight hours so that they are free to work "childfree" all they like. Part of what they pay for is those "yard apes" to be taught enough to get a job someday instead of hanging around shopping malls car-jacking for a living.
I don't buy it. Taxes are a pain for everyone. The conventional logic is that if you make more, you pay more AND if your living expenses are more by necessity then you get a break here and there. Taxes go towards a lot of unfair things that I don't agree with either but I'm not bitching at the recipients of those breaks.
Wanna be childfree? Great. But don't act like you're superior OR discriminated against because of it.
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Date: 2004-03-01 06:08 pm (UTC)Frankly, unless you extend that argument to include other "groups" then it is an empty argument. My taxes go to paying for bombs I don't approve of, civil service workers that I will never have need of and roads I may never in my life drive upon - so what?
Taxes go to pay for a lot of things that benefit the whole of society - would childfree couples prefer a lot of ignorant kids running around? Part of what they "pay" for is those "sprogs" to be housed seperately during daylight hours so that they are free to work "childfree" all they like. Part of what they pay for is those "yard apes" to be taught enough to get a job someday instead of hanging around shopping malls car-jacking for a living.
I don't buy it. Taxes are a pain for everyone. The conventional logic is that if you make more, you pay more AND if your living expenses are more by necessity then you get a break here and there. Taxes go towards a lot of unfair things that I don't agree with either but I'm not bitching at the recipients of those breaks.
Wanna be childfree? Great. But don't act like you're superior OR discriminated against because of it.