-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous who signed himself as Monty Cantsin <anon@anon.efga.org> writes:

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While I am generally sympathetic with Mr. Treibs, it does not seem reasonable to ask for a government child subsidy while claiming the government has no business raising kids.

Since when is a deduction on income tax (not a tax credit) a `government child subsidy'?

It's not the government's money.

That's true. And it is worth taking the trouble to distinguish between pure subsidies like those that TRW and welfare queens take from tax subsidies which most people take. Still, a tax deduction is a benefit. How much would you pay for a $1000 tax deduction? It depends on your marginal income tax rate, of course, but presumably you would pay around $300. Mr. Treibs is asking for this benefit, for special treatment from the government, solely because he has children. If he doesn't want the government to insist that his children be tagged like everyone else, it would be very easy for him to forego this benefit and pay under the same tax scheme that many other childless people pay. Unjust? No more so than the tax rate people without children are forced to pay. But, I wish Mr. Treibs and his family well. They sound like the kind of good decent people that one would like to have for neighbors. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNCr8P5aWtjSmRH/5AQHERQf/QzYaifjLsspLkULVwFdK9bbbR6pc8Imp KbTH+i31Pp67U+Gb9UbtFRw08ysJ659vmMgL+f07yQnNNr5ZJfSDyEmrFO/P5mOq 9eSm+vEZaBsUGBrEKaUowsXb4mWnj8QIu1xV+0xI00+uNk4qGlAB0U0MFjoarN2c cGvfmWZvMmHOgdTMp1cDXJ/DlzsTJmCWLbvaCMhnqtL6tCEAem+jqgZ79zCl15ut YgtsKPVXBln1w9zSF95t4cpnyHMtO5ct2bdtIBWMrVCYsmAK3wTy+CKZUhGk/X5Z Cs51EJ2baBNFizW2nSFZjCYsIDIkQAcBJg1SVkGgHF+sJU2rR/1ppw== =gNsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----