Mr Khan on 16 April 2010
| badgenome said: In this scenario, would you get rid of the tax deductions for claiming dependents? Because getting a deduction for having dependents, and also getting one for not having any... seems odd. Either way, I don't think it would change much of anything. People generally have babies (or don't) for non-tax purposes. |
Bingo. Financial incentives aren't helping in Japan, where they'll give you a good deal of funding to have kids (with the demographic crisis and all)
Though this has a higher chance of working, since it's like farm subsidies. They pay you more to do less, which synchs up perfectly with core American values :P
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
