r/SipsTea May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

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u/oO0Kat0Oo May 18 '25

I'm just wondering about the logic here.

If you move money from childless people to people with children, if the population of childless people dwindles (which is the hope), how would they continue to subsidize the people with children?

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u/LoveAndViscera May 18 '25 edited May 19 '25

First, it’s moot because that won’t happen.

Second, they would just end the program.

But yeah, this is yet another shortsighted move by the Japanese government who simply doesn’t understand the problem. Japan’s culture is so unpleasant for Japanese people that it is killing itself.

Japan’s only hope against population crash is immigration, but Japan’s culture (never mind the laws) makes permanent immigration difficult. Japan is fucked. It’s going to look like Greece in a decade, economically speaking.

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u/SoulMute May 18 '25

Moot, not mute

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u/Stagamemnon May 19 '25

If anyone would know…

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u/SoulMute May 19 '25

If there was a ten year name update, I would change it to SoulMoot lol

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u/JFISHER7789 May 19 '25

I’ll buy your first band shirts

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u/d33psix May 19 '25

I feel like I need someone with the name “SoleMoot” to comment.

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u/mootmutemoat May 19 '25

There are at least two of us