To stop encouraging single-parent and broken families, should the government only offer child-tax credits to adult husbands and wives who are both the parents of the child/children claimed on the return?
2007-04-06 19:15:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
The credit should be available to anyone raising kids.
You can't fix marriages and families with something as crude and superficial as a tax credit. Relationships are far more complex than that.
2007-04-06 19:21:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's absolutely asinine. I'm pretty sure the US Government shouldn't be telling me, a fellow human being, what is right for a child, especially when they supply schools with school lunches which consist of "mystery meat" with questionable quality and artery-clogging agents. Anyway, it's not up to the effing government to encourage anything in a free society...what every happened to "living" and not "following"? If the government is "encouraging" anything, maybe they should encourage the improvement of the things which cause marriages to fail in the first place, like, immaturity when it comes to alcohol, which could be solved by lowering the drinking age so it starts at home under the supervision of parents where it can be controlled, not when they turn 21 at some bar and then attempt to drive home. Maybe they should teach intellectual thinking in high school which teaches objectivity and solution-oriented discussion within the household and not calculus!? It's not fair to be such a Republican and not give an already-struggling single parent a taxt cut, you Nazi.
2007-04-06 19:29:08 · answer #2 · answered by kindoveaz 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How about patching the marriage penalty gap?? I know a couple each with their own kids who will lose over $10k a year if they marry!
Or how about patching the SS tax gap for seniors?? If they stay unmarried, they pay less tax, get more SS, AND the SS exclusion will be $50k instead of a measly $32k??
And why should we ultimately penalize the children by taking money away from the family unit??
No, taxes are not the proper forum for controlling society!
2007-04-07 04:32:19 · answer #3 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What for? We have enough single moms on welfare as it is. This would only cause more poverty. My daughter is divorced through no fault of her own, and she has two sons. One has now been diagnosed as being psychotic and schizophrenia with ADHD, and the other has ADD with chronic asthma. She was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, and she does not smoke for those who think that caused it. She depends on her income tax return to pay her bills that has accumulated during the year due to their illnesses.
2007-04-06 19:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. Married people get tax breaks anyway.
2007-04-06 19:19:47 · answer #5 · answered by Emily Dew 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, that would mess with single parents that were never married or widows/widowers. you can't force morality. it must be learned.
2007-04-06 19:24:43 · answer #6 · answered by jay p 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to heck with horrible idea!!! I'm glad that since you think your crap doesn't stink that it gives you the right to look down on other people and want to punish them for things that are beyond their control.
2007-04-06 19:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by tara b 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So what happens for widows/ers?
2007-04-06 19:20:20 · answer #8 · answered by TBAR 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋