Reply #118: Incentivize

[Pithlet]

I'd like to know how on earth such a thing is incentivize. Do you want to know how incentivizing it is? I'll tell you how incentivizing it is. It was so incentivizing that it may very well be the one thing that keeps us from sinking into utter destitution if the worst thing happens and we become the next victim of this horrid economy that is rapidly shrinking our middle class as we speak. Yeah. I guess we should have known that was going to happen, huh? And not let that tax credit incentivize us to have kids? The tax credits that were in no way on my mind when I made the decision? Too bad it just might do what it was designed to do should the inevitable happen. We'll hang on by a thread for a tiny little while longer instead of utterly sinking into poverty right away. Maybe it will give us the time we need to pull out of it. Because those tax breaks probably did help us to save a little more than maybe we otherwise would have been able to. Doesn't that frost your shorts? Well, too bad.

Honestly. I don't think too many people are thinking about EITCs when they're doing the deed. Do you? And don't worry. We're probably going to be okay. But the economy does suck royally. No one is safe anymore but the insanely rich. I'm just trying to point that particularly at this point, tax credits for families really are meant to be a safety net.