Should childless people be taxed to help families?

[the_bob_delusion]

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/should-childless-people-be-taxed-to-help-families/story-f...

"ARE childless Australians community-spirited enough to pay more taxes to enable people with kids to be taxed less, to help support them as they raise the next generation of taxpayers to keep the country going?

It is a controversial proposal, floated today in the US by one childless columnist who was raised by two extremely hardworking middle class parents who battled—as many Australian families do—to cover family costs.

To foster a fairer society and give those who are producing kids a little less excruciating financial pressure, he suggests that child-free people earning more than the median household income (in Australia $57,400 in 2011) should be taxed more heavily, and families should pay around $5000 a year less."

Are you for or against?

[nero_bolt]

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@**bob_bless_you** wrote:

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/should-childless-people-be-taxed-to-help-families/story-f...

Are you for or against?

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Sounds like SOCIALISM to me..... 

and I fully agree with this comment posted on that story

. I'm not working my backside off so someone else can start a family. If you can't afford children, DONT HAVE THEM! Get the income before "breeding" Stop expecting the govt and others to pay for your procreation.

[fourandsixpants]

Gee state of the economy must be friggin appalling for this sort of suggestion to be made!!!!

Heck yeah!!!(sarc)

TAX EVERYBODY FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!

[silverfaun]

What about the couples who can't have children, should they be punished even further?

Some couples should be dissuaded from procreation altogether....lol

[id-to-post-anything]

and some couples without children might be working their butts off so they can have enough money in order to have those children. So, they gonna be taxed BEFORE they've had them?? ha

[lind9650]

In todays time and age when even teenagers know all about contraceptives, no woman should have children if they can not afford them.

I say no to such tax ideas. Everyone should pay tax according to their income and not to their marital / family status.

Erica

[lyndal1838]

Absolutely NO.

I bought my children up without any help from the government or other tax payers so why should I now have to contribute to anyone else's children. 

[*mrgrizz*]

they already are

[the_bob_delusion]

when they had the baby bonus. That was kinda of a reverse tax.

[*mrgrizz*]

still have a baby bonus as far as i know

FTA and FTB