You already pay more taxes if you don't have children... (child tax credits, dependents in household, etc)
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But not in a way that financially coerces you to have children, which is what Vance wants
Ah. The new class war. Parents vs the childless. What bullshit
So I just have to impregnate a bunch of women and I get to live for free right? What's the America that JD Vance wants?
They have completely flipped around. They are now the welfare Queens. They are the triggered snowflakes. They are the one's calling for defunding law enforcement.
It's almost like they stand for absolutely nothing
I thought they stood for a god-king theocracy type of dystopia where they rule but are never ruled.
This is literally already the case. Parents get tax deductions.
He's calling for a world where people are more or less coerced into having children by punitive taxes if they don't have any.
How about since he views parents as having more of a stake in americas future, they can pay extra taxes. Why the fuck would anybody pay more taxes for less representation, not that we have much anyway for what we already do pay.
Considering that parents get a Child Tax Credit ($2,000 per child I think?) and I pay property taxes to fund public schools (I don't mind) I'd say I'm already being taxed in order to subsidize other people's children
I have no problem paying to subsidize children (regardless of who their parents are, children aren't property), because I care about the future of this country and those children will run this country one day. I just don't want the law written to punish me for not having kids, especially not when they're talking about taking my voting rights away over it.
Give parents a bigger tax credit. Increase taxes for schools. Throw as much money at the children as you want, I won't complain, I'll keep paying my share and will celebrate a society that actually prioritizes outcomes for all children, instead of just children of wealthy parents.
Just remember JD doesn’t think you’re pulling your fair share.
Government so small it can only oppress the poor and middle class.
Terrible idea from Vance.
The only kind of ideas he's known for.
God damn lol.
Trump never had this douche-canoe vetted, and it shows with horrible clip after horrible clip just pouring out.
I feel for the Harris campaign staffers who have to listen to hours apon hours of his podcast horror shows, but they are doing the lords work. This stuff is campaign gold.
Peter Thiel has been pimping this edgelad out to every single political vacuum he can find, and Vance has magnificently fucked up every place he's been put, so here's hoping the trend continues!
Or he did. It the people vetting him (including Trump) like is entirely unamerican ideas.
What’s hilarious we already pay more in taxes anyway. (We get substantially fewer deductions, for example.)
I say unamerican because he wants to give parents more voting power with more kids
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