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I don't get it then. Is this all just a whine about progressive taxation? If you make a tech salary you don't get this benefit, it's not for you. No one want
by ajross 3y ago
I don't get it then. Is this all just a whine about progressive taxation? If you make a tech salary you don't get this benefit, it's not for you. No one wants to pay for FAANG scions in their taxes and they never will.
That doesn't obviate the point that the US federal government provides really quite reasonable (if not super generous by western standards) child care benefits, and thus all the hyperbole above ("no solution", "useless", etc...) is basically wrong.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoIt’s not a whine about progressive taxation. It is just stating that the tax benefits are not meaningful incentives to have more kids, especially for middle class and above. It’s like, “thanks, but this doesn’t really move any needles in significant directions.” So techies are even less likely to reproduce, because as you say, no one is interested in encouraging them and the HCOL areas they live in have wicked child care costs. So maybe we should just be happy with our below replacement birth rate, and figure out other ways to live in a world worth increasingly fewer people?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI guess the main confusion here was what was meant by no-op, as in "no-op in deciding whether to have more kids or not."