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Originally posted by CRH911S
Am I confused or what? Since both work hard and are responsible and can not afford a pregnancy it seems to me the question is answered. Since when was it ever the responsibility of government to impose a tax burden on those that can pay so that those that are too stupid, lazy, or ignorant can breed indiscriminately. As for the imaginary couple? Under the current situation they can freely choose to have children and force me to pay for it so what difference does it really matter?
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I'm sure I didn't explain it the way it is in my head. The difference between now and the imaginary situation is that you could only do it if you were holding down jobs and attempting to do the best you could, vs. getting knocked up because you were drunk, or 14 year olds having babies.
It's just a slight attempt to prevent it from becoming impossible to have a child unless you were middle-class or better, and make it not so bad in the human rights department.
Like I said though, that's what would happen anyway, since such a system would never really work in the really real world.
Edit: and by assistance to those people, I don't particularly mean just cutting a check, that inevitably leads to having more kids to get more money, which would be strictly disallowed (this imaginary world is a dictatorship on a purely inaccessible island of course), and assitance could be provided in the form of subsidized housing or utilities or something.