Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]
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On 04/05/08 19:46, Nate Duehr wrote:
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> Not going to dive into the fray about overpopulation and people having
> children who can't afford to raise them... but I will comment that
> having finished my 2007 taxes here recently, and as a (by choice)
> non-parent, I find our society "rewarding" parents by giving a tax break
> for each child to be quite distasteful.
>
> I have no problems paying my fair share of taxes, but lowering both
> taxable income and this year -- offering a higher rebate as an "economic
> stimulus" package-- for people who decided to have or keep children, is
> fiscally irresponsible, as it rewards the wrong behavior. I guess I
> wouldn't spend that money more readily on capital goods that would truly
> help the economy? Yeah right. What world is this again? The parents
> with four kids will spend it on higher fuel costs for soccer mom to rush
> children from event to event.
>
> As a DINK family (Dual-Income, No Kids and yes, we're a "family" too,
> even if we're treated like second-class "family" citizens by almost
> every government, religious, and societal group), who probably will be
> for our entire lives, we know we're in the minority, and screwed -- when
> it comes to pointing out to our so-called "representative" government
> that handing back more money to someone because they have children,
> and/or offering them a lower taxable income number every year than ours
> at the same real income level, is blatantly wrong.
When there are more DINKs than MoDIHKs (Mono or Dual Income, Has
Kids), the law will be changed. Until then, society deems having
children a Good Thing, and thus a government program to help them is
also a Good Thing.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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