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Australia gives tax cuts if you have a family with children. (Family tax benefit part A and B). Do you think that's unacceptable social engineering?
by Sabinus 7y ago
Australia gives tax cuts if you have a family with children. (Family tax benefit part A and B).
Do you think that's unacceptable social engineering?
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoThat’s ok, because by having children you provide a service to the state (i.e. ensuring its existence in the long run).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoBut this argument can be trivially extended to all other "social engineering" taxes. Vice taxes make you drink or smoke less? You're reducing state's expenses on healthcare, law enforcement and social services. Tax benefits for installing photovoltaics or buying electric cars? You're helping to improve the quality of life, again saving state on healthcare, and in the future, on various forms of crisis management once the climate issues start taking their toll in full. (FWIW, I'm generally in favor of this kind of "social engineering" when done by democracies.)
- syshum 7y agoYes, Why should a person the choose not to have children be punished by the state with higher taxes for their choice?
- anoncake 7y agoIf having children benefits society those who choose to do that should be rewarded.
- syshum 7y agoSee I am an individualist, not a Collectivist, I believe the only role government should have is protect my individual human rights from other individuals Not to pick and choose what is "best" for society, governments have a terrible track record at picking winners and losers What is the saying, if left of to government we would have the best iron lungs money could buy but we would not have a polio vaccine