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It's USA Today making an exciting headline to boost readership and a bunch of people not understanding, for the most part, the numbers behind the rhetoric.
I don't really understand how people can believe that those with children do not pay their fair amount of taxes. As if! Yes, we get a Child Tax Credit and for those families that use day care (which BTW is usually only for a few years until the child is older) they get something, too... but just for an example... our family pays close to $8,000. in federal taxes last year and with our deductions and credits only saved $3,000. So, yes that was very cool and all... but we still paid $4,000 in Federal taxes. We also paid several thousand dollars in state taxes as well as nearly $6,000 into social security and around $1300.00 into medicare...
(and isn't that weird that we almost pay more or perhaps almost the same into social security - something that many say we won't even have when we need it in our future - than we do in federal taxes?)
Not to mention that people with kids pay a heck of a lot more taxes in other ways - we have a lot more consuming to do than childless people for starters, and more healthcare dollars are spent as another example...
The government is going to get its money out of its citizens somehow... whether you have kids or not.
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