Originally Posted by Chickenhauler:
Ok, now answer the question-where will the money come from?
Are you going to mandate that every person, regardless of whether they have children, plan to have children or even cannot have children, have a percentage deducted from their paycheck to be paid out to those who have kids?
That, my dear lady, is socialism.
Why would I be against it? Because I live in the real world where I understand that money doesn't just appear magically. Before the gov't can give ANYONE ANYTHING, they must first take it from someone else.
And that's WRONG.
i did answer where the money comes from. it comes from working people's paychecks...just like unemployment and SSI regardless of whether they will ever be unemployed or live to see SSI.
i'm pretty sure there are more people give birth or have a wife that gives birth than people who get laid off.
again, are you against unemployment? it's the same concept, except much more likely to happen.
furthermore, there is a paid maternity/paternity leave in america - it's called WELFARE! if people who don't work and don't want to can get a free check and stay home with their babies - what's so unbelievable about WORKING people being able to do it, but the money is coming from what they've paid in and NOT what everyone else has paid in like you're suggesting.