(04-09-2019, 11:57 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-09-2019, 07:40 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I am just thinking of him walking up to a single mother of 4 in Walmart and telling her she hasn't earned her child support payment.

Child support scales to the income of the payer, not to the child raising effort put in by the payee.

Truth.

Child support is just another thing the government thought they could fix and control and really just made it worse.
It costs x amount to raise a child.
Unless you make x, then it costs x amount more....
Oh and if you don't pay, we'll suspend your license, so you can't get to work.

Who you procreate with has consequences... sometimes that means having a crappy father for your kid that doesn't want to help.
That's her bad as much as he's a douche for being that way.

How a mother has "earned" child support simply for having a child with a man she (or he) no longer wanted to stay with or never intended to is equal to saying people earn money simply by being alive. Or earn unemployment by not getting a job or getting fired.
Although, I'm not surprised where I'm seeing certain people line up on the issue lol

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(04-10-2019, 12:36 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-09-2019, 02:22 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: No, I disagree with you that any money that a person gets is income. Windfall from the lottery is not income, it's winnings; it's only considered "income" so the government can take part of it. Gambling might be a profession (earned) or it might be pulling a slot one time (windfall). The same with a lawsuit or child support, neither is really income, but should instead be considered an award.

So a dividend from a stock or a bonus from an employer - are those income in your book?

Personally I believe wages earned from employment shouldn't be taxed.

As wages are not income.

https://www.simpleliberty.org/tait/the_c..._grows.htm

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