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So high taxes make people more likely to maintain traditional family (husband works and wife runs the household).
by dennisgorelik 16y ago
So high taxes make people more likely to maintain traditional family (husband works and wife runs the household).
- dLuna 16y agoHigh taxes have a tendency to mean cheaper child care. In general countries with high taxes have subsidised child care. I believe that high taxes would rather put a stop to the one-earner household since marginal effects on two incomes at X is usually a lot less than the tax on one income of 2X.
- roboneal 16y ago"High taxes have a tendency to mean cheaper child care." Is subsidized child care, really cheaper - if you are paying higher taxes to receive the subsidies? Kind of an odd logic.
- gaius 16y agoYes it is cheaper if it's other people's taxes. That's why no-one campaigns for tax cuts so they can afford childcare.
- cwp 16y agoTo make it more explicit, subsidized child care is cheaper for parents, because everybody pays taxes, but only parents receive the subsidies.
- jacquesm 16y agoA society without children is called dead the next generation. Not that I'm pro-subsidies (never used any) but I can see why there would be some collective advantage about the previous generation having had children (that's why you're here...) and we extend that to the next. This also benefits those without children because they end up getting a pension from other people's working children. (your pension typically isn't money that you put in the bank, contrary to what most people seem to think).
- aswanson 16y agoOr hold back on having children, or lowering the number of children that they have.
- jacquesm 16y agoPossibly lowering that number all the way down to 0.