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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (9620)	3/9/2010 5:55:07 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15994

If the society wanted to, such fees could be assessed and administered by non government trustees. One problem would be the tendency to have connected government officials or cronies of them practice self dealing with trust assets. Crimes and criminals only addresses a very small portion of the cost to society of a new human life. An example of a distorting tax code is the unlimited quantity of dependent deductions available under the IRS tax code. It can be legitimately argued that the deduction does not approach the cost of raising a child. So what? It is not the IRS's duty to reduce taxes to cover the cost of childrearing. Another concern I would have is what would happen to children who have no citizenship? Adults?