An alert reader recently sent me an article arguing that childless couples should be taxed MORE than those with kids. I will not dwell on the abject absurdity of such an argument, seeing as how we already pay more taxes than they, what with their extra deductions and such. And I will not bring up the usual saw about: no kids? Why do we pay the single largest piece of any tax: schools?
Nay, the dork writing the article went so far as to suggest that if we don't procreate, we are not paying for those who will shoulder our Social Security and Medicare - we turn into a bunch of HATEFUL CURMUDGEONS (emphasis is your scribe's).
Now THERE he crossed the line. We childless curmudgeons expect to be hated by the idiots we notice from time to time (pajama pants in public wearers, oblivious drivers, people whose phones are more important than their present company...well, the list is sort of long...).
Nonetheless, we are NOT hateful. Merely discerning. And over-taxed.
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