So-called "feel-good" stories that "ought to make you throw up."

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17. thinking of school does not really help

As it is more money that I pay for other people's kids.

A wheelchair ramp is not really preferential treatment.

I generally do not pay federal income taxes. That is a benefit that is available to anybody else who wants (?) to live on $17,310.04 (my wages for 2017) and also put $6,500 into a Roth.

But take income taxes (please). A single person with no children who makes $17,310.04 and cannot afford to put money in an IRA would then pay $693 in Federal income taxes. Meanwhile a married couple with two children making $58,400 can put $10,000 into an IRA and pay ZERO in federal income taxes.

But by all means, let's tax the poor to help those better off with their child care expenses. That's the progressive way.

And on the matter of pay. My employer will pay $791.58 a month for health insurance for a single person, $1,163.38 a month for a couple (or for a single parent and one child) or $1,286.30 a month for a family. Thus a family man or woman effectively makes $6,000 a year more than their single. childless co-worker - and it's tax free too. So much for equal pay for equal work.

There's perhaps a key difference, You are childless by choice. I, on the other hand, am not happy about being unmarried and childless. I feel like those who are married with children are already far better off than I am (at least until I meet their spouse (rimshot)) and I resent having to subsidize people who are already better off than me. In much the same way that I do NOT resent subsidizing people who are worse off than me - like those in wheelchairs.

Once upon a time there was no such thing as a child tax credit. Then it was introduced at $200 and I predicted that politicians would fall all over themselves to raise that credit. Now it stands at $2,000 per child, a large subsidy the childless are demanded to pay to those with children.