I got another one to add to the list. Quit giving people big refunds back every year because they have children. I'm a single guy getting my ass jammed in taxes and people are getting back 3 - 5 grand yearly cause they have kids! Cut this shit out and would be doing great. Why should I pay more and you less when I'm supporting your children to go to school. Hell people with kids should have to pay more! People focusing on the government giving a hand out to a 18 year old with a seizure disorder instead of worrying about the people who get all there federal taxes back. You have children, too fucking bad, you pay as much as me! I rather have my money go to the low income people and get screwed over by a few dead beats knowing im helping out some who need it then take it in the ass from some family making 80 grand laughing to the bank in february
I agree. Having children is a choice, and there's no reason for it to be subsidized. The "quiverfull" crowd should shoulder the burden for their 13 kids.
Long ago, it made some sense when we could use a larger population, and when children were expected to care for their parents in old age. Now those things are not as necessary.
It's probably no longer a good idea to allow mortgage interest deductions either. Today one can get very low interest loans in order to afford to buy a house, and many of us are living in houses much larger than we need simply because the tax benefit make is easy to do so.
However we do need to raise enough revenue to provide a decent 12 year education for everyone. We all benefit from an educated population, whether the physician who treats us, or the engineer who designs our roads and aircraft is our own child or someone elses.
Military spending could be cut by half and still leave us with the most powerful military on earth, but there's no reason a healthy 37 year old should be able to retire from the military and collect a pension for the rest of his life.
