On 2008-09-05, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
In chi.general Brent P wrote:
On 2008-09-05, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
In chi.general Brent P wrote:
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Not really overpopulation but the conditions they live under due to
economic and government systems. (oddly enough though, those conditions
are what encourages large familes)

I don't think the government encourages a large family... remember the
child tax credit cuts out at 16... 16!!!!

*sigh* not the US government, not yet anyway, governments in the third
world.

I don't think governments in the third world encourage overpopulation, the
people need 10 children to work their farm to survive...

Those governments create the conditions where they need ten kids to get
by. Remove the corruption, the centralized power, etc and so forth and
the standard of living would advance and people would lose the need for
larger families. this has been seen everywhere it has been tried.

A co-worker of mine from India always said the government would give you a
pail and a brush as payment if you'd allow them to sterilize you...

Yes, sponsored by eugenists but that's another story.

AMT is the governments child tax cut subterfuge... you start out taking all
these deductions but AMT adds back more than half by the time your done...

The AMT is the game of inflation. Here's the game plan. The government
goes and taxes the rich because well lots of people like such class
warfare. They define the 'rich' as a dollar amount and don't index it to
any sort of inflation. The government through the privately owned
federal reserve inflates. They devalue the money. Time goes by, now the
average person is 'rich' and heavily taxed.

AMT disallows deductions your employer uses to calculate your withholding...
That sort of messes up any additional credits they give because they only
offset the new tax amount...

*sigh* you're too caught up in the details.