Shouldn't you be able to take a tax deduction for your unborn fetus, even though he will not be born until January?
2007-11-15 02:39:38 · 18 answers · asked by Murazor 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i'm deducting every sperm when i do my taxes...
take that IRS
2007-11-15 02:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 2⤋
NO. My reasoning behind saying "No" is this:
We live in a country where abortion is legal. There are also many thousands of people (more like a few million, but thousands sounds more hopeful for the fate of our counrty) who cheat on tax and take any bogus deduction they can get.
Since abortion is legal, allowing a fetus tax exemption would open the floodgates to opportunists with little or no morals or ethics who would deliberately get pregnant, take the deduction, and abort the fetus.
Also, a woman is usually a couple of weeks pregnant before you can get accurate test results, so there would be many who would claim the deduction based on the possiblity that they MIGHT have been pregnant on or before December 31.
Any pre-menopausal woman who had heterosexual sex (since condoms and birth controil are not 100% effective, even those who has "safe sex") could use this excuse to claim the deduction. She could always claim later that she miscarried the baby.
There are also other complications, such as if a woman aborts or miscarries, does she refund the deduction? And if she aborts or miscarries before the year's end, soes she even qualify for the deduction at all?
In the rare cases known as "stone baby", where the fetus dies in the womb, but is never born (and can remain in the womb for decades unless surgically removed... I think I read somewhere that the record was 63 years between the death of the fetus and the death of the mother), is the mother eligible each year that she does not get surgery? Or is she eligilble only the first year? Or, for that matter, if the fetus dies before the year is over, is she eligible at all?
The plan sounds good in theory (my wife is pregnant with our second child [due in April] and the extra deduction would be nice), but there are too many complications for the plan to ever be feasible.
2007-11-15 10:54:20 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew Stewart 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suppose if you were spending a significantly greater amount of money than you otherwise would to support it. Isn't that the idea, to mitigate those costs? I dont' know if that's really the case when the child is still in the womb so I'm not sure if the exemption should apply. Besides, you can still legally murder the child, so maybe some people would just get pregnant for the tax exemption and then murder the child before it was born.
2007-11-15 10:48:47 · answer #3 · answered by Thom 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good point.But what about all the miscarried conceptions that go completely unnoticed?You should therefore get a tax deduction once a month just in case.
2007-11-15 10:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why stop at conception? What about all the sperm and unfertilized eggs? They're part of the life cycle too. Is losing sperm through masturbation mass murder? Is a woman selling her eggs like spiritual prostitution? Or what about all the pregnancies that are miscarried unintentionally? If a woman loses her baby because of reckless or violent behavior, should she be cited cited for negligent homicide?
2007-11-15 10:51:51 · answer #5 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interesting idea. I mean, it actually would be a dependant if you're "eating for two."
Here in Arizona, a woman tried to use the carpool lane because she was pregnant. She got a ticket and fought it in court. She lost, of course.
2007-11-15 10:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Life doesn't begin at conception....
That is a lie created by people who don't understand biology.
Conception is two cells combining, both have pre-existing life, there is no magical spark that takes place.
But I am willing to recant that statement if it means I get any tax breaks.....
2007-11-15 10:43:55 · answer #7 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
It also makes god the biggest mass murderer in the universe.
All those fertilized eggs that did not implant. All the miscarriages. God killed them all.
Anyone who argues against this has a very poor understanding of the words 'omnicognizant' and 'omnipotent' and what they imply.
2007-11-15 10:50:32 · answer #8 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Go to H&R Block and mention it to them...you might be laughed out of the office but I think you have a valid point.
2007-11-15 10:44:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
All mothers to be should be exempt from Everything! Even murdering their spouse in a fit of rage and eating him. LOL.
2007-11-15 10:46:12 · answer #10 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Can I claim my unfertilized ova?
Cause I've been on the pill since I was 17 and I've got a ton backed up in there....
2007-11-15 10:43:25 · answer #11 · answered by ~Smirk~ Resurrected 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋