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Originally Posted by polak
I have to fund your kids life. I really wonder how much of the tax I pay goes to child related areas....
Obviously people don't complain about it cause funding society's future makes sense. Just funny that we're bringing up paying for life choices when the taxes from people without kids are pouring tons of money in for schools, playgrounds, youth programs and recreation for children.
Personally, I'd like it if we converted every playground to a strip club and instead of funding school buses we funded limos to take me to said strip clubs.
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Have you paid back your taxes for being alive yet? If not you are not funding other kids life.
Its 2-3k to be born, plus 10k if you had complications, Its about 5k a year for school from k-12. Tuition is 1/3 the funding of university last time I looked so another 10k a year there. Plus lets call it 2k a year a health care costs.
So society paid about 150k not including tax breaks your parents got for you or funding of other programs and facilities like parks an arenas ect to get you into a tax paying adult. So until you pay that money back with interest I don't think you are allowed to complain.
And maybe funding other people's kids is a poor way of looking at it. Since total number of kids is dropping each generation pays less for kids and we steal from other countries through immigration. Instead you pay for your cohort. There are many people who will never pay back their birth debt. So you aren't paying for kids you are paying for the failed members of your cohort.
Not to mention the debt servicing costs we are pushing to the future generation to pay Op costs today. So have you paid off your share of the debts and deficits for your cohort?