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How many children do you have?

How many children do you have?

  • 1

    Votes: 7 20.6%

  • 2

    Votes: 8 23.5%

  • 3

    Votes: 4 11.8%

  • 4

    Votes: 4 11.8%

  • 5

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • 6

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • 7

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • None

    Votes: 8 23.5%
  • Total voters
    34
  • Poll closed .
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Click the appropriate box and be honest, voting only once. Of course you don't have to tell in a post if you don't want to.
 
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No box... but I will gladly vote when there is.

None. I'm childfree.
 
I've got 2, ages 12 and 14. Seriously, why would someone lie about it?
 
Didn't say anyone would lie, just don't want spoilers voting more than once.
 
I can't see "0" and "I don't know". :lol:
 
American said:
Didn't say anyone would lie, just don't want spoilers voting more than once.
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What's the impetus to "spoil" anything? What would someone get out of voting more than once in this particular poll? I don't get it.
 
I have no children.
 
None and i hope i dont have any for quite a while... Cuz honestly who wants a bunch of socialistic kiddies running around?
 
I have no kids. In the future though, but no time soon.
 
Two kids here. I always figure its good to have a back up plan.
 
I've requested a correction to the poll, to add the zero option.
 
I don't have any children. I'm subsidizing the rest of you who do. You're welcome.
 
We had one of each. One girl and one boy.
 
Two boys aged 12 and 9 by my ex-wife and a daughter (16 months) with my partner. All the kids live with me.
 
WI Crippler said:
How do you figure?
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Who pays more taxes? Marriage and children give you all sorts of tax benefits. I still pay for your public schools, I still pay my full share of the tax burden, even for those parks which are used well more by families than single people. Hell y'all even get breaks on your mortgage for being married; all that money has to be made up elsewhere and it is the single people who get to make it up. You can have enough kids to completely remove your federal tax liability. Sure, the first kid is expensive; but once you have one the next isn't nearly as so.

Families have been living off the back of single folk for a long time now; not paying their fair share.

So again, you're welcome.
 
Ikari said:
Who pays more taxes? Marriage and children give you all sorts of tax benefits. I still pay for your public schools, I still pay my full share of the tax burden, even for those parks which are used well more by families than single people. Hell y'all even get breaks on your mortgage for being married; all that money has to be made up elsewhere and it is the single people who get to make it up. You can have enough kids to completely remove your federal tax liability. Sure, the first kid is expensive; but once you have one the next isn't nearly as so.

Families have been living off the back of single folk for a long time now; not paying their fair share.

So again, you're welcome.
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I was single folk once myself as was my wife, so i guess I paid for my own children and marriage benefits in advance. My welcome.
 
WI Crippler said:
I was single folk once myself as was my wife, so i guess I paid for my own children and marriage benefits in advance. My welcome.
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It really depends. A lot of people don't really make the money they'll make early on; so it depends on when you got married and when you started having children. The earlier you do so, the more you've taken from others so that they can help raise your kids. Most people, for instance, won't have a mortgage until close to the time they would marry. So while you did pay more while you were single, is it really enough for the 18+ years other people pay for your kids and the lifetime of other benefits you'd get from your marriage? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how early you got married.
 
WI Crippler said:
I was single folk once myself as was my wife, so i guess I paid for my own children and marriage benefits in advance. My welcome.
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I paid taxs when single...I married had 6 kids, theyve been grown and on their own and ive been paying again for someone elses kids for 17 yrs and will continue till I take my last breath...
 
Ikari said:
It really depends. A lot of people don't really make the money they'll make early on; so it depends on when you got married and when you started having children. The earlier you do so, the more you've taken from others so that they can help raise your kids. Most people, for instance, won't have a mortgage until close to the time they would marry. So while you did pay more while you were single, is it really enough for the 18+ years other people pay for your kids and the lifetime of other benefits you'd get from your marriage? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how early you got married.
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Just because taxes are reduced for others, doesn't mean they are increased for you. It just means they are reduced for those people. Its not like they said "lets do a child tax credit, and make up for it my taxing childless parents more". Besides, having kids does that dastardly thing like keeping the country existing. In the long term view, its better for the government to encourage the nuclear family for the health of the republic and its future.
 
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