Currently in the United States, you can obtain tax credits per child to reduce your income tax burden. Is this something that should be expanded or retracted?
On the one hand, it probably makes it easier for White couples have more kids - on the other hand, it does the same for non-Whites.
What do you all think?
>>130398780
We need it scaled up by income bracket for that very reason.
>>130398780
It should obviously be expanded, but also include a "lump sum" credit when the child is born.
Ultimately the real problems, law-wise, are with regard to divorce and marriage laws. Marriage should only be between two people who physically can conceive. Divorce should only be allowed when the other party is proven to have cheated, beaten, threatened to harm, etc.
Finally, courts should stop being biased 90%+ against men.
>>130398884
Also this. Ultimately the point of a credit is to help maintain the same level of comfort even while raising the child (i.e. counteract the costs of child-rearing). When they're not scaled, you end up getting a drop in the bucket and expending everything out of pocket. Might as well not exist
>>130398884
How would that work exactly? I don't actually think any other tax credit works like that - or would you propose something like writing off the cost of childcare up to a point (with the implication of that being that poor people will write off their maximum before middle class people do, simply because they pay less)?