# Should people with children have to pay taxes for schools?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-with-children-have-to-pay-taxes-for-schools/596884
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [September 20, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-with-children-have-to-pay-taxes-for-schools/596884 "2011-09-20T00:55:44Z")
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### Author: ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-with-children-have-to-pay-taxes-for-schools/596884/21 "2011-09-20T17:21:54Z")

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> [@DianaG](#):
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> Reproduction _is_ subsidized to a point. There are all sorts of tax deductions around kids and their associated costs.

I know. I mean it should be subsidized to a certain point of reproduction as well as to a certain point of subsidy, as it were.

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### Author: ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-with-children-have-to-pay-taxes-for-schools/596884/22 "2011-09-20T17:48:54Z")

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> [@LinusK](#):
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> My opinion is no. Assuming we need children today, in order to have tax-paying adults tomorrow, parents are already doing their share. \*\*What are childless people doing?
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> Nothing.\*\*
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> Why should parents have to pay double?

Bolding mine. And I take offense to that statement. We are childless and we DO pay taxes for other peoples children. What the heck are you talking about? You think people with kids are somehow paying double taxes? WTF?

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### Author: ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-with-children-have-to-pay-taxes-for-schools/596884/23 "2011-09-20T17:51:13Z")

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> [@LinusK](#):
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> What are childless people doing?

Making air babies.

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### Author: ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-with-children-have-to-pay-taxes-for-schools/596884/24 "2011-09-20T21:49:49Z")

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I suspect the OP is riffing on this current thread: [Should people with no children pay taxes for schools?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=437166)

But then again, maybe not.

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