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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9628)	3/10/2010 3:29:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15994

Each individual uses resources. Those resources are mostly provided by the relatives of that individual, than later by that individual. Individuals tend to be a benefit to society not a cost to society. IMHO it is not my responsibility to pay the cost of my neighbor's twelve children. If they aren't on welfare or the equivalent, or recipients of your charity, than you aren't paying the costs. If the government is paying the cost (through welfare of the equivalent in the broadest possible sense of that idea), than you have the government imposing the costs on you not the children or their parents. If the children later become criminals (esp. but not only if they commit crimes against you), than they are imposing costs against you. But they do so by being criminals, not by merely existing. All the non-criminals are not imposing these costs against you, and the even the children who will later (but are not now) criminals, have not yet imposed this cost. The technology certainly exists to much more closely track activities that incur costs. More closely only because its so far away now. "More closely" is right, but "closely" is not. Also the attempt seems like something that is going to be inefficient and vaguely totalitarian. Also you still haven't answered my question - What does not charging for births, while also not giving tax credits of children, have to do with people being uneducated?