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But who's to pay?
by hirako2000 3y ago
But who's to pay?
- hirako2000 3y agoI observe there isn't a clear answer as to who's to pay. Let me help there. Everyone's to pay. But let's make that clear as the statement implied whoever is demanding higher demography would fund it, by some miracles. I'm not myself against funding the future of the civilization our lineage built. But we are already taxed significantly, more so to fund wars from what I see. already gave up properly financing a solid health care and education system.
- gedy 3y agoThey could just not tax (or refund previous year) new parents. This will never fly because blah blah reasons blah blah inequity, etc. But seems would help incentivize productive parents.
- al_borland 3y agoWhen certain people don’t need to pay taxes, someone else still has to pay. Either taxes need to go up for others, or the deficit grows accordingly, which is kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.
- gedy 3y ago> the deficit grows accordingly, which is kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with. So, the same as today basically? It's been this way nearly my entire life and I'm middle aged. I’d personally rather fund more children and new families, then whatever the hell happened in the past five years with the deficit. More people means more future tax payers as well.
- acdha 3y agoWe had a balanced budget at the turn of the century. What produced the deficit we have now was rich people deciding that their past tax cuts weren’t enough and several wars of choice with expensive occupations, not investing in future citizens.
- IshKebab 3y agoI guess the money should come out of state pensions because that's who's going to benefit most!