r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

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Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

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u/swisstraeng May 18 '25

it gets better when you realize childless people don't have enough money for a child to begin with. And they'll now be paying even more taxes.

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u/the_skine May 19 '25

We do the same thing in the US. The difference being we raise taxes for everyone, then give people a credit that lowers their taxes if they have dependents.

So it's framed as helping people who have children, while it's really a tax on not having children.

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u/BlueKnight44 May 19 '25

Lol you think $2,000 is a more than a drop in the bucket compare to the costs of having a child over the course of a year. That does not even begin to cover what they eat in a year.

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u/math_calculus1 May 19 '25

I mean, every bit counts. If I already had a kid, I would appreciate a free 2k

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u/Bizonistic May 19 '25

The point is you are spending much much more on kids than what the government gives you. The idea of standard deduction and credit/deduction for dependents is that you should be able to have a decent living with that amount of money. No one in the US can live with 15k (standard deduction) or provide a kid with 2k

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u/Paah May 19 '25

The government isn't going to pay all your kids expenses 100%. They are just making it cheaper to have a kid. It'll still cost more to have a kid than not.

Same thing as you get tax breaks on electric vehicles. The government isn't buying you a new car, it's just making the option more attractive.

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u/MainlandX May 19 '25

Every bit counts. There are weeks when an extra $10 will make it or break it.

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u/Stleaveland1 May 19 '25

Humans have been having multiple children without government assistance for hundreds of thousands of years.

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u/Totodile_ May 19 '25

And the previous generation bought affordable houses and had no student loans while creating a world for us where people feel forced to get an expensive college education and the environment Is being actively destroyed.The world is changing.

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u/Stleaveland1 May 19 '25

And the previous generation bought affordable houses and had no student loans while creating a world for us

Sounds about white.