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forumposter123@protonmail.com's avatar

At the end of the day I just think this is about childless people not wanting to pay more taxes.

You say incentives don't work, but nobody really tries. At most some country will provide 5-10% the full cost of raising a kid, often in in-kind services the parents may not even value (what does subsidized daycare do for a stay at home mom, nothing).

An extra $5k in taxes on taxpayers without children would fund $25k in CTC for a median family of four simply by returning their taxes paid (no refundability). That would make a big difference, rather then this pidly crap over $5k vs $2k.

Vance's comments were in 2021 when the childless cat lady demographic had closed my kids school and wanted toddlers to wear masks all day. There does seem to be a conflict between the interests of families and the interests of single women. That's why married people of both genders vote GOP and single women vote 70% DEM. I'd also like school choice but childless cat ladies oppose it.

At the end of the day I do think there is a certain bitterness going on. $5k more in taxes isn't a big deal, its admitting that you need to contribute more because you contributed less by not having kids that irks people.

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Arturo Macias's avatar

I learnt at 18, reading Indro Montanelli, the most important Law of History: restorations never work.

You simply cannot believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that he resurrected in flesh and Soul. Vance does not believe it (he married a non Christian). He wants others to believe it, for reasons that are sound. But none of those reasons is that he believes.

In a materialistic-atomistic (post Newton and Darwin) world, the elite will not be able to hold a Bronze Age religion for long. It is a dead end.

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