You have a very valid point there. But here in the US, the government gives away free money every year to those that squeeze out as many babies as they can in the form of exemptions. Take John and Jane Doe for example. More likely they are not a couple anymore, so they get more free money being single with the kiddies in tow. Jane has a job at the local fast food place making $9.00/hr. At the end of the year she has amassed a whopping $12,000 for her efforts. But she has 5 kids to feed. Her employer dutifully took out of her paycheck the 15% to cover her income tax, Medicare and Social Security Taxes. This totals up to $1800. Take the 25% off for the SS and Medicare and Jane has paid $1350 in income tax for the year. There are no refunds for SS and Medicare, only Federal Income Taxes.
Jane files her tax return at the end of the year claiming 6 exemptions. Herself and her 5 kids. The government allows for $3000 for each exemption. I'm not sure of the exact figure, but I think it's up to $3G's now per person. This is $18,000 just in exemptions. Not a bad haul for only grossing $12,000 for the whole year working. Now each one of these kids qualifies Jane for $XXX amount of dollars in Food Stamps, Welfare, Housing and whatever else they are given. There is so much I've given up paying attention to it. Instead of stopping at the initial amount of $1350 which Jane paid in taxes in the first place, she's given quite a tidy sum to go squander as she sees fit. Where is the logic and economics in this? Where is the incentive to get a job?
The Democrats want to give the poor more incentive to do nothing while Trump wants to faze all the entitlement programs out and put them back to work. I'm not saying I like Trump, I was just using him as an example. But if business was brought back to our country and given the so called tax breaks to get the populous employed again, the country and the business wins. Having businesses like General Electric paying NO taxes is absurd. Taxing people that got a business built by dedicating their younger lives to that business and making it a successful business instead of going to parties is also absurd. Just because they made it in life means they have to carry the dreges on their backs? I don't call that fair either. And the ability to 'write off' corporate yachts and jets as a business expense is plain ridiculous. Everyone leases cars now because it's a write off if you form an LLC for a few hundred dollars. That's a free car. All you do is pay gas and maintain it for the duration of the lease.
The flat tax or fair tax has everyone paying in no matter their status on the ladder. Everything you buy now has a tax attached to it. We are eliminating one tax which isn't fair (income) and implementing another which is more fair across the board. You still have to pay taxes in order to operate the government, maintain the roads and provide emergency services. It's just that with the fair tax everyone pays, not just select few and the government does have to pay out for welfare babies.
If you can't feed them, don't breed them.