EmilyB wrote:I thin people who smoke, drink and pay as many F****** fines as me should be taxed less!!!

Em, I love wine. Where I live there is a high tax on booze. When one buys a drink by the glass in a restaurant or bar (pub), in the state that I live in, the price of the drink is 90 percent tax. I don't have a problem with that at all because it is a luxury and not a necessity for me. Smokers... sorry Em, but since I don't smoke and I have to inhale the stuff when out and it affects my sinuses like mad, I don't care what kind of tax is on that either. I'm sure it's high here too. I would love for marijuana to be legalized and they can tax the stuff to death if they want. I'd still pay for it. The benefits of pots are over looked for 'some 'unknown' reason' to me. Yet to penalize a person for not having children is stupid and another one of Fred's fun topics as was the "kneeing in the balls" thread he created today.
Let me say
Fred, that YOU create these threads for your fun and to vote in your nutty surveys under your many different names just to impress yourself and gain votes in your favor.
I think we that don't have children should be awarded more deductions that you. We are putting less stress on the earth and it's resources, we must rely on ourselves in our final years and not on our off-spring (not that it is a guarantee to any parent that their children will give care for them). Our taxes go to the public school systems and that is fine with me. Education is extremely important and I was a student of the public school system. It is only right that I give back. Enough from me (for now). You have inspired me to send out a shitload of letters to my congressmen asking for more single-one person family tax deductions.
Those with children, I applaud you if you are raising children to continue with life and teaching them well to be productive contributing citizens. Yet, we without should have no responsibility to pay double.

We all must to take care of ourselves. We also have a moral obligation to take care of those that did not have a chance to provide for themselves, whether it was due to early illness, birth defect, misfortune of injury or death to a family provider. Our veterans should be given an exception as well.