One time a gay guy told me that gays should be "put in charge of culture" since family men like me don't have time for it. I said, "Let me get this straight. A guy like me, who buys schoolbooks and soccer balls and winter coats for my kids, am going to have NO SAY in our cultural priorities? No vote in where this society focuses its thoughts and aspirations? That's cowshit...In fact, I think there should be a "childless tax", a "gay tax", an all-around "flake tax", for men and women over the age of 30 with no kids. Gay or straight. I supply my kids with the implements and services they need for 18 years or more of job training – while you sip expensive wines and vacation in Bermuda – and then when you retire my kids will be working to pay your Social Security? That's a massive rip-off. You should be taxed, starting today, for refusing to accept any responsibility for continuing human existence...You can adopt some abandoned kid if you want to avoid the childless tax." He screamed – a woman's scream.
50 comments
I think there should be a "stupid tax".
You can adopt some abandoned kid if you want to avoid the childless tax."
I'd rather adopt an abandoned child than spend time shooting out babies for Jayzus!
Also Rich, what would you do if one of your kids turned out to be gay or decided not to have kids? Would you tax them too?
A) This didn't happen.
B) There is effectively an extra tax on the childless, given both the for AGI and from AGI exemptions and credits in our tax code. Not to mention the fact that tax money goes to education, healthcare, afterschool programs, and many other socialist aspects of our society that help raise your children.
We're already suffering overpopulation, jackass, and you want to tax those who refuse to breed?
I think you wish you hadn't spawned and you're just jealous.
Damn, I don't have any kids. I don't know why the hell I'm not sipping my expensive wines and vacationing in Bermuda.
Also is it just me or is this guy just a tad bitter that his kids are a drain on his wallet?
Human existence is in no danger.
Also, you're already getting a tax break incentive just for having kids; you want to increase the load on the childless further? Someone sounds like they regret their decision...
In fact, I think there should be a "childless tax"...
Right on! After all, it's not as if there are 6 billion idiots roaming the surface of this planet...
Maybe we should institute a "birth tax" to recoup the drain on Earth's resources created by knuckleheads like you pumping out kid after kid.
... and then when you retire my kids will be working to pay your Social Security? That's a massive rip-off.
And yet I haven't heard a word from you about how unfair it is that my kid will be paying for you Social Security.
Do you mean to say that if we hadn't had three children we could have been sipping expensive wines and holidaying in Bermuda?
Darn. That's 26 years of cheap plonk and holidays in Torquay I could have missed!
Anything that shoots out of your crotch is your responsibility, not mine. If anything YOU should be taxed for contributing to the overpopulation problem, and I should get the tax break for not squeezing out little leeches on our world's resources.
And I sure wish I had all that expensive wine and vacations everyone seems to think I have, I'm struggling to make ends meet just like everyone else. I don't get any tax breaks for brats like you breeders do. I'm helping pay for your kids public school education, the parks they play in, the roads your car-seat laden minivans drive on, and the emergency services standing by should your little shit decide to play with matches. I'm not putting an extra burden on farmers and miners to produce enough raw materials to sustain an exploding population, while giving them less space to do so since more living space is needed to house this spoiled, ungrateful generation. So instead of bitching at us child-frees, you should be thanking us. It's because of us that there's even remotely a chance that your children may have a world to live in at all when they grow up.
And now I'm going to go have a nice leisurely breakfast and enjoy a quiet Saturday of no soccer or piano lessons. I think I'll read a good book in between watching some college football. All uninterrupted of course. :D
"You should be taxed, starting today, for refusing to accept any responsibility for continuing human existence."
Actually, by helping to keep the population to a reasonable level, the childfree are doing equally as much to ensure the long-term survival of the species as those who DO have children.
I propose a tax on anyone who has more than 5 kids, myself. Mainly because the "clown car" people always have more than 5. We can't afford such a huge burden on the earth's resources unless child mortality goes back up. And nobody really wants that.
"I supply my kids with the implements and services they need for 18 years or more of job training while you sip expensive wines and vacation in Bermuda and then when you retire my kids will be working to pay your Social Security? That's a massive rip-off."
Actually no, with all the equal legal rights you've been taking away from gays they're not as well off as you think.
Assuming this even took place, the guy was probably cracking a joke about the gay stereotype that us faggots are expected to know everything about "cultured", "artsy" shit, not RUNNING THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
before your even done outlining your latest stupid idea for a system your already coming up with ways to avoid and abuse it.
how can you expect anyone to take you seriously when even you don't seem to.
I supply my kids with the implements and services they need for 18 years or more of job training...and then when you retire my kids will be working to pay your Social Security?
They'll be working to pay your social security, too.
And what's with all the kid-bashing in the responses to this, anyway? Don't take it out on the kids--it's not their fault they're here. And it's not their fault that people like Rich here feel like typing screeds like this on t3h interwebz because they're frustrated.
So when should we start taxing people for not having children? Lets give an arbitrary age of 18, okay? Since we are going to start taxing 18 year olds for not having children, they're going to have to start knocking girls up around 16 or 17 to not be taxed at age 18, correct?
Yes. Let's promote teenage pregnancy!
Even IF your straw gay actually existed (and would therefore not be straw, but I digress) he may have been making a joke. If he was, you responded with an even stupider suggestion. In fact, even if he was serious, he didn't have the greatest suggestion but you totally outshone him in idiocy.
And no, it's not a massive rip-off. Taxes support things that people without children will not be using, such as public schools, and that's the way that taxes WORK. You can't say what you want your tax money to go towards, because the majority of people wouldn't want their money to leave their pockets in the first place, so you have to pay your taxes to get the social benefits you want even if they're also providing for things you don't need or even oppose. For the record, while there will never be any Mini-Jafarias, I'd prefer my taxes educating American children than killing Iraqi ones any day, but I can't get that. So you can't get the ability to not pay a gay guy's social security.
My taxes already pay for your children's schools, amenities, public transport, health care, welfare, your tax breaks, on and on ad nauseaum. I would prefer an opt-out system where I can disregard any taxes that go toward large families, and instead pay a tax designed to offset the carbon footprint of said families. I would also like to ensure that the childed don't get any tax breaks or state help if they refuse to adopt or foster one non-bio child per child they birth, to balance things out. But that would be unfaaair because Rich wouldn't want the knife to cut both ways. He just want to be superior to teh gayz, wimminz, singles, the unmarried and the nulliparous.
When the world is facing a horrendous problem such as overpopulation, you want to impose a "childless tax"? If anything, we should tax families with more children higher so that there would be an incentive not to have a lot of kids.
I still pay school taxes like everyone else even though my wife and I have no kids, plus we pay more in taxes each year because we dont have the "rug-rat exemption"......
since I'm already being taxed more for the reasons you state, you can pretty much kiss my ass you fucking moron.
You can adopt some abandoned kid if you want to avoid the childless tax.
Ah, how the Conservatives really view those "abandoned kids" they convinced women not to have an abortian over-a tax credit.
Oh, and those people who are gay have never, ever paid into social security that they themselves will use later in life. EVER.
Wait, isn't my paying a boatload of taxes to support schools I will never use since I don't want kids essentially a "childless" tax? I doubt the money his kids put into the system from their burger flipping jobs will pay for my SS benefits, though.
Besides, I am totally the kind of person Rich there doesn't want procreating -- well-educated, mainstream Protestant, and liberal. Bet he doesn't consider that sort of thing when he's advocating having kids by the age of 30. Freak.
Fuck you, pal. I'm 32, straight and I have no kids. I earn my own wages and I don't take anything from the state. When I retire, assuming I get that far, any social security benefits I get (which probably won't be much) will have been paid for out of MY OWN taxes over a 40+ year working lifetime. Yes, your having kids means you have more bills to pay than me, but you chose to have them, I chose not to. I don't try to impose my choices on you (even though the fucking planet is massively overpopulated already) so don't dare try to impose your choices on me, or expect me to pay for them.
I mean what's the point of being treated like a sheep? I mean I'm fed up with going abroad and being treated like a sheep. What's the point of being carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, complaining about the tea "Oh, they don't make it properly here, do they? Not like at home" stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg and sitting in cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh cos they "overdid it on the first day." ... - Eric Idle
So, wait, because I had a disease that made me sterile, you're going to tax me? FUCK YOU. You make the brats, YOU should pay for their fucking school and whatever else they need. And my life is quite full without children, thank you very much, and I pay quite enough taxes as it is.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.