Of all the unfair and nonsensical concepts in the federal tax code of the U.S., none stands out more than the way tax breaks are given to parents of dependent children. Those taxpayers get huge tax credits and deductions for each child they can legally list as a dependent. As a result, they pay less in taxes that those with similar incomes who have no dependent children, assuming all else is equal.
However, since many public resources are spent on children, logic and fair play would dictate that their parents should pay more taxes, not less. But those who write the tax laws never let that kind of stuff stand in their way. The tax code is, in effect, being used as a vehicle to force those who have no children to subsidize other people's kids.
We wouldn't stand for letting a man take money from his childless neighbor's pocket to support to support his kids. On the other hand, when the government does it for him, very few people speak up, and the neighbor himself often acquiesces to the theft.
Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, amateur political analyst, and blogger from Virginia, USA. He posts a least one article a day to his blog - http://commenterry.blogs.com - on subjects such as current events, politics, technology, society and culture, religion, health and well-being, self improvement, personal finance, trivia, and sports. Terry is also the owner and operator of a website that is dedicated to allowing U.S. citizens to find all types of insurance at reasonable prices.
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