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I'm one of the childless adults here and I feel like I get to have things both ways because I can say I agree with you while knowing that there's zero chance of
by silverquiet 3y ago
I'm one of the childless adults here and I feel like I get to have things both ways because I can say I agree with you while knowing that there's zero chance of any of this making it into US (I'm pretty sure that's the country we're talking about here) law. So thanks for raising those future tax-payers.
- atomicnumber3 3y agoYeah - pessimistically, the upper class won't vote for it because they don't want to pay more taxes and they don't raise their kids anyway. The middle class should vote for it, but they won't because the men can simply be absent fathers by being "career-focused", and our ultra-conservative midpoint will still mostly frame this as making taxpayers pay for poor black parents to not work, which is a double-whammy to racists - more nonwhite babies _and_ the parents can be "welfare queens". And obviously corporations won't like anything that implies their workers aren't just robotic cogs who are society's problem outside of the ages of 18 and 40.