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mordocai | 9 years ago

You may take the stance that we need less children due to overpopulation problems. Either way though, people having kids is what continues America's and humanity's existence.

This is the whole idea behind lower tax brackets for married couples and similar things. Making sure our population is at least being maintained and preferably growing.

In addition, if you dislike the large amount of kids that grow up in orphanages/bad homes things like this should allow people to have more time to take care of their kids during their first several weeks of life as well as potentially encourage more people to keep their kids instead of putting them up for adoption.

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RHSeeger|9 years ago

> This is the whole idea behind lower tax brackets for married couples and similar things.

I'm confused by that statement. From my experience, married couples pay more in taxes (in the US) than they would if each were single (and making the same amount).

Or am I misunderstanding, and you meant that there _should_ be lower taxes for married couples?

mordocai|9 years ago

I was under the impression it was usually lower taxes (partially selection bias due to it being lower for myself). As the other commenter points it, it is complicated and sometimes lower/sometimes higher to file jointly.

Interestingly, the current tax structure somewhat encourages single income families.

azernik|9 years ago

You're right about the facts you said, but wrong about them contradicting the parent comment.

Filing as married benefits couples where only one person is pulling down an income, thus providing a subsidy for one parent to be a full-time parent but not for marriages in general.

peterbonney|9 years ago

See my comment elsewhere in this thread about overpopulation - it's really not a legitimate issue to worry about (Malthus was wrong).