The problem with a child tax is that it would make it even more difficult for low-income families. In a sense, a child tax is a mode of eugenics. Why not tax food and privatize water while we're at it?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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