Reply #203: Children are people. [View All]

It's all well and good to say that people should not have children they can't afford. But, our society, economically and socially, is changing to where only the very wealthy could afford to raise children without help financially from other sources. I do not want our society to become one that will stop helping children because they happen to be born of parents who do not belong to the wealthy elite. Having children is not a hobby. Having children is producing new citizens that will grow up to be the foundation of civilization in the future. It's not as if you're telling someone not to buy a computer because they can't afford it. It's just not the same thing.

Parents do not get tax breaks to penalize anyone. They get them because society has chosen to recognize that raising them takes all kinds of resources. They've deemed that it is socially beneficial to all to ensure that people other than the very rich can do so successfully.

Children are citizens just like adults. The tax credits are for them. The reason it doesn't go to them directly is because they can't spend it for themselves and take care of themselves. The logic that these credits "penalize" the childless is about as twisted as a freeper's claiming that taxes that go to help poor people are penalizing them for not being poor.