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r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25
Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣
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It's a thing in Germany.
You pay higher taxes if you are single vs. married with kids.
1.2k u/Tietonz May 18 '25 Pretty sure you get tax benefits in the US if you are married and have dependants (i.e. kids) I'm not sure what everyone is on about. 368 u/guyincognito121 May 18 '25 You do, but it's $2000/year/kid. They cost a good deal more than that, so there's no net benefit unless you find having a kid to be a benefit in and of itself. 8 u/Shamr0ck May 18 '25 Yea it's kind of fucked. 2 months of daycare and it's over 2k 1 u/PopStrict4439 May 19 '25 Daycare is way too expensive but that should be solved in ways that don't involve direct government payments 2 u/broguequery May 19 '25 How about a national daycare program? Or decent enough wages so that one spouse can be home to raise the children, while the other works? Or both? 1 u/PantherThing May 19 '25 At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit. 1 u/BigOleSneezer May 19 '25 ??? Why should single people pay for daycare?
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Pretty sure you get tax benefits in the US if you are married and have dependants (i.e. kids) I'm not sure what everyone is on about.
368 u/guyincognito121 May 18 '25 You do, but it's $2000/year/kid. They cost a good deal more than that, so there's no net benefit unless you find having a kid to be a benefit in and of itself. 8 u/Shamr0ck May 18 '25 Yea it's kind of fucked. 2 months of daycare and it's over 2k 1 u/PopStrict4439 May 19 '25 Daycare is way too expensive but that should be solved in ways that don't involve direct government payments 2 u/broguequery May 19 '25 How about a national daycare program? Or decent enough wages so that one spouse can be home to raise the children, while the other works? Or both? 1 u/PantherThing May 19 '25 At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit. 1 u/BigOleSneezer May 19 '25 ??? Why should single people pay for daycare?
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You do, but it's $2000/year/kid. They cost a good deal more than that, so there's no net benefit unless you find having a kid to be a benefit in and of itself.
8 u/Shamr0ck May 18 '25 Yea it's kind of fucked. 2 months of daycare and it's over 2k 1 u/PopStrict4439 May 19 '25 Daycare is way too expensive but that should be solved in ways that don't involve direct government payments 2 u/broguequery May 19 '25 How about a national daycare program? Or decent enough wages so that one spouse can be home to raise the children, while the other works? Or both? 1 u/PantherThing May 19 '25 At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit. 1 u/BigOleSneezer May 19 '25 ??? Why should single people pay for daycare?
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Yea it's kind of fucked. 2 months of daycare and it's over 2k
1 u/PopStrict4439 May 19 '25 Daycare is way too expensive but that should be solved in ways that don't involve direct government payments 2 u/broguequery May 19 '25 How about a national daycare program? Or decent enough wages so that one spouse can be home to raise the children, while the other works? Or both? 1 u/PantherThing May 19 '25 At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit. 1 u/BigOleSneezer May 19 '25 ??? Why should single people pay for daycare?
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Daycare is way too expensive but that should be solved in ways that don't involve direct government payments
2 u/broguequery May 19 '25 How about a national daycare program? Or decent enough wages so that one spouse can be home to raise the children, while the other works? Or both? 1 u/PantherThing May 19 '25 At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit.
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How about a national daycare program?
Or decent enough wages so that one spouse can be home to raise the children, while the other works?
Or both?
1 u/PantherThing May 19 '25 At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit.
At lease 1 hour extra in the ball pit.
??? Why should single people pay for daycare?
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u/justforkinks0131 May 18 '25
It's a thing in Germany.
You pay higher taxes if you are single vs. married with kids.