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sperry · 2004-04-21, 11:51 PM

Alright, so I'm talking out of my ass when it comes to taxes... like I said, I really don't know the numbers.

My beef with the tax system is that it's way more complicated than it should be. I'm not saying that it's really hard to do my taxes, and to be honest I don't feel like my taxes are too high. What bothers me is that I have to jump through hoops in order for the gov't to take my money, and once they've got it, I feel like it's being wasted because the bloat of our gov't sucks money and accomplishes nothing but maintaining the status quo, which is namely "those in power stay in power, and those who are rich make more money".

As far as your recomendation to "get married and have kids" in order to lower my taxes... well, that's just rediculous. I'm not saying you got a family to lower your taxes, because there are many great reasons to have a family aside from the tax break. My point is that everyone *knows* kids and a family are expensive. Why should you get off paying your share of the nations taxes because you have children, or a house, or a wife? How are kids a benefit to the economy when jobs in this country are being shipped over-seas and unemployement is up? Right now, America is price cutting itself right out of the world economy (remember that thread we had on WalMart?) Having the additional cost burden of children means *less* money to spend on premium goods and services that have higher markups. The cost of children force people to bargain hunt, which means places like WalMart thrive on the low price bottom line, which forces more jobs overseas, which means less money for the people that work and live here, which means even more need to bargain hunt.... and so on.

I'm not saying that families are bad... I fully intend on having my own someday. I'm just saying a tax break for having a family is like giving more money to welfare cases because they've got kids. It seems like a compassionate thing to do, but in the long run it just promotes wellfare mothers into having more kids, thus perpetuating the situation.

2004-04-21, 11:51 PM	#36
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	Alright, so I'm talking out of my ass when it comes to taxes... like I said, I really don't know the numbers. My beef with the tax system is that it's way more complicated than it should be. I'm not saying that it's really hard to do my taxes, and to be honest I don't feel like my taxes are too high. What bothers me is that I have to jump through hoops in order for the gov't to take my money, and once they've got it, I feel like it's being wasted because the bloat of our gov't sucks money and accomplishes nothing but maintaining the status quo, which is namely "those in power stay in power, and those who are rich make more money". As far as your recomendation to "get married and have kids" in order to lower my taxes... well, that's just rediculous. I'm not saying you got a family to lower your taxes, because there are many great reasons to have a family aside from the tax break. My point is that everyone knows kids and a family are expensive. Why should you get off paying your share of the nations taxes because you have children, or a house, or a wife? How are kids a benefit to the economy when jobs in this country are being shipped over-seas and unemployement is up? Right now, America is price cutting itself right out of the world economy (remember that thread we had on WalMart?) Having the additional cost burden of children means less money to spend on premium goods and services that have higher markups. The cost of children force people to bargain hunt, which means places like WalMart thrive on the low price bottom line, which forces more jobs overseas, which means less money for the people that work and live here, which means even more need to bargain hunt.... and so on. I'm not saying that families are bad... I fully intend on having my own someday. I'm just saying a tax break for having a family is like giving more money to welfare cases because they've got kids. It seems like a compassionate thing to do, but in the long run it just promotes wellfare mothers into having more kids, thus perpetuating the situation. __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?