Why should there be tax breaks for families?

Question

As is the world population is increasing at an alarming rate. The world's resources aren't increasing either. Shouldn't we discourage large families at least for a short period of time say 50- 100 years? I am not arguing for policies like in China, but to stop tax breaks for families with more than two kids.

Why do people immediately think it is unethical to be against large families? Reproduction is a right and responsibility of the parents, not some favor done to the rest of the population who are least concerned if you have kids or not

Answer 1

I agree. I also feel that if you have to take a test and prove your skills to drive a car the same should be true for parenting. I don't believe the Government should regulate our personal lives but it seems that the people with the most kids are the worst parents. They did something similar with welfare...they stopped giving bigger checks for more kids so they should do the same thing for taxes.

Answer 2

Don't think of it as a tax break. Let's say there are 5 people in a family. If you take the entire income for the family and divide it by 5 and made each person file a separate tax return for his share would that be fair? There would probably be even less tax paid that way.

Answer 3

Ok smart *** if everyone stopped having children (the fututre) what would happen?

You are so obviously a single sad 20 something man with no clue of LIFE.

Go play on the highway hun!

Answer 4

ALL tax breaks should be eliminated. ALL income tax should be eliminated and replaced with the Fair Tax. Read up on the Fair Tax.

http://www.fairtax.org/

http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/taxes/a/aafairtax.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax