Good Grief
While not a higher rate, you will pay less if you have kids vs someone without.

If those children are DEPENDENTS (and there are OTHERS who qualify in the household as a "dependent" ), then that will also factor into further claims for deductions, and reduction of one's taxes, outside of that child tax credit.

who should be "punished" and forced to pay more taxes and not have the same voting rights as people with kids!

Kamala needs to bring this up in interviews. This insane, extremist idea will not even be popular with normal R's.

Clearly Chump didn't vet this guy very well.

On edit: as previous poster said - a tax credit for kids exists, so childless people ALREADY pay more in taxes.

Yeah, right.

We may not have children and have to spend our income on raising them, but unmarried individuals don't have the advantage of a combined income with a partner more times than not. We need to work longer to get a down payment and to qualify for mortgages, pay home insurance, property taxes, repair and maintenance of our homes.

We have no advantage over married-with-children folks.

on TFG's shoulder.

Sad to say.

and for college savings funds and so on.

kiddie parks, taxes to offset parental deductions for child care, private schools, etc.

That having children would be a life of impoverished misery due to not having reliable partner or livable wages. That's why I have no children, I raised six who weren't mine by birth but I knew if I had any that they would have a shitty upbringing because I could not provide a reasonable lifestyle. It's been all I could do to take care of myself in this lopsided society. A few more years and I can fall off the planet, problem solved.

I have always felt that I don't belong here, anywhere, so I have resigned myself to looking forward to when I can finally go back to wherever I came from.

Now that I'm officially old, approaching 70 in (For some reason the rest of my paragraph didn't load, weird)

So we can't get off the planet with our physical forms and that's all there is to it. If energy can only transform rather than dissipate, it's our physical forms that we will have to shed in order to carry on. I think that everyone who has been here, on this planet, was someone when they came here and when they departed, they are still in existence somewhere in a different form of energy.



I'm having a weird morning, got up at 2am and did some serious vomiting and have been recovering since. Not feeling all that bad, I must have eaten something that didn't agree with my stomach. This also happens when I mistakenly eat something that has some kind of mint in it that I can't immediately detect. I'm seriously allergic to mint. It feels like one of those events.

Never heard of a mint allergy but our bodies detect all kinds of "hidden" things I've discovered as I age.

Frankly, I have no idea what will happen to my energy/consciousness when I kick the bucket. All I know is that I'm going to be somewhere other than this fuckin' violent psycho planet.

Hope you feel better soon.

Now I'm just hungry and trying to decide what will go with my toast.

Too bad religion has everybody thinking that this is the only place and that leaving is bad, somehow.

And here, you belong.

Great description. I was always fascinated by those redund checks for MORE than the recipient paid. It was child tax credits.
I have not once in my life, received a refund check.

Great description. I was always fascinated by those refund checks for MORE than the recipient paid in. It was child tax credits.
I have not once in my life, received a refund check.

Married Filing Jointly and Head of Household (single parents) filers have a bigger standard deduction than Single (childless unmarried people) filers do. Trump got rid of the personal deduction in his tax cut, but the Child Tax Credit, which requires you have kids, and the Earned Income Tax Credit, which essentially requires you to have kids, still exist. So...what Vance wants already exists, unless what he wants is to increase the number of tax brackets from seven to, say, ten, and say "if you have children your first taxable dollar will be taxed at 10 percent, but if you don't it will be taxed at 24 percent."

Which, naturally, would lead to the end of the Republican Party.

JD Vance aka Captain Caveman

That's an insult to Cavey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"reward the things that we think are good" and "punish the things that we think are bad" (emphasis mine)

Using the IRS as a weapon to bring about your vision of an ideal society? Seems like Vance was the perfect, fascist pick (or 'prick').

people who choose to have children get tax breaks.

What about deductions for dependents? We sad, husbandless, childless cat ladies don't get any of those things, so we do pay an effectively higher tax rate. And we pay local taxes to support schools for the children we don't have.

He'll start with tax penalties and end with birthing camps.