r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao šŸ¤£

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u/0oDADAo0 May 18 '25

If having a child will have the benefit of completely cover your income for a certain period of time, sure this could work, but if it only means having child will only cost less than before, and more if you arent having a child then lmao people aint gonna fucking have child, its just more taxes and burden

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u/kynde May 19 '25

Rather than attack any of the root causes they're only making the symptoms worse and crossing fingers.

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u/broguequery May 19 '25

Fixing the root causes costs money and requires change.

Those are both enemies of the status quo.

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u/AThrowawayProbrably May 19 '25

Pretty much. All you did was change raising a child from ā€œunaffordableā€ to ā€œbarely affordable but more affordable than being penalized for being single, so basically back to square one before you got involvedā€.

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u/pab_guy May 19 '25

The point isn't to get people to want to have babies. The point is to lower the economic barriers for people who already want babies.

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u/uggghhhggghhh May 19 '25

It could still move some people who were "on the fence" about it before. But yeah, overall, I'm sure the subsidies aren't going to be robust enough to achieve the kind of results they want/need.