On another thread we were discussing that our current tax policies support a two income family. This drives the economic engine at the expense (imo) of the family. Do you think we should shift our tax policies to support a stay at home parent? Should tax policy encourage both? Neither?
I think taxes should be used to pay for goverment not as social engineering.
One of the ways Hitler reduced unemployment was deeply discouraging women from working, therefore men got to take thier jobs and women had to seek husbands to support themselves.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
chickaree wrote: On another thread we were discussing that our current tax policies support a two income family. This drives the economic engine at the expense (imo) of the family. Do you think we should shift our tax policies to support a stay at home parent? Should tax policy encourage both? Neither?
Thanks for doing this. It will be interesting as the pole shows after only 3 votes.
I believe the economy, as with most things, is like a Newton's Cradle...every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Good can't exist without bad. Happy can't exist without sad. Lots of money can't exist all the time.
But I also believe both the economy and a strong core family are equally important though they can be independent of each other.
The current reality that necessitates a two income family is the direct result of the federated government and the incompetence of its attempts to manage the economy and social engineering experiments. Most families were single income ones until the federated government's adherence to Keynesian Economic Theory tossed the nation into the inflationary spiral experienced in the 1970's and early 1980's.
