[brc]

Don't forget the extra taxes paid to provide the schooling and hospitals!

It's a good thing for these to be spread out - otherwise those who don't have kids are free riders on those that do. A healthy educated child not only supplies a lifetime of taxes paid, they also provide the labor to care for the ageing who didn't have children.

[gambiting]

Income tax in Poland is at 19% at the moment - surely it's not a lot more expensive than anywhere else in the world?

[brc]

I might just move to Poland then!