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This is very true, but awkward to implement. What do you propose? We could pay women. Take the number of years the woman had in school, minus ten. She gets tha
by tropo 10y ago
This is very true, but awkward to implement. What do you propose?
We could pay women. Take the number of years the woman had in school, minus ten. She gets that many $thousand per year per child. One could ignore negative numbers... or not. If this takes the place of child support, educated men might be more willing to risk becoming fathers.
For tax purposes, we could divide a person's income by the number of family members. If you earn $123,000 and have 8 kids, we use $12,300 to determine your tax bracket.
There are lots of ways to do this... and there will be lots of objections from those who would be better off with the current situation.
- gedy 10y agoHow about a tax rebate for previous year when you have a child?
- burfog 10y agoUnless it were huge, and scaled with income, it really wouldn't change things for the educated. Educated people earning 6 figures and getting taxed 5 figures are too smart to get excited about a 4-figure payment for roughly 22 years of supporting a child to a high standard. Ignoring interest and inflation, a lump sum of $8800 to cover 22 years is only $400 per year. That's pocket change for the educated. Make it a $million to be serious.
- Gravityloss 10y agoMany countries have paid parents leave, and they give money for a long period after the child is born too. http://www.thebump.com/a/maternity-leave-around-the-world http://www.thebump.com/a/maternity-leave-around-the-world