Current Events > The worst way to make money, tax wise, is working a job

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Its very easy to give someone money to watch your kids without the government noticing, this is a weird thing to get hung up on

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bigblu89 posted...

Why not?

I'd bet you use more than $9000 worth of government services in a year.

Not worrying about where your garbage goes after you put it to the curb is worth about half that alone.

My roads are in disarray and I pay for a trash service, and our public schools have textbooks from 20 years ago. Wherever the tax money goes, my community is not seeing it.

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UghWhoCares posted...

Its very easy to give someone money to watch your kids without the government noticing, this is a weird thing to get hung up on

Yeah it is. My grandma ran a daycare out of her home in the 80s, she'd take care of 16 kids a day including her own. She only charged $15/day. Eventually, government became involved and absolutely ruined daycare options for struggling parents.

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I was reading Capitalism and Freedom a while back and this is brought up. It's funny the author basically calls the tax separation a scam.

The proposition there was to treat all income the same, tax wise (and naturally lower taxes all around because it's a capitalist book).

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shockthemonkey posted...

Thats running a daycare. Thats not the same as being an individual who finds another individual to watch their kids.

I don't know what you're trying to say

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I understand the regulatory arguments for why child care cost has increased. But I also have to wonder if parents are now so used to the idea, where they themselves want minimum child-teacher requirements.

I mean, I guess the idea would be that it shouldn't be a requirement and if a center wants to offer cheaper prices by putting 15 toddlers into a room with a single care taker, that option is there. And for parents who don't want that, they would pay more
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