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Because I have to subsidize your father's weak pull-out game.
All the money I make is taxed as income and I have no deductions.
Parents get deductions for each kid. And just for being married. And special treatment at work.
Cry me a river.
I pay $3-4k more in taxes when I file with my wife. I get $2k per kid as a deduction. Married costs me. I get a little back for kids. But $2k is one month of daycare per child.
So... No. No special treatment. I don't get more sick days when my kids are sick. I don't get less work because I have children. I don't get easier projects because I'm a father. Whatever special treatment you think we parents are getting is delusional.
Pretty presumptuous to assume that all people with children are married.
The cost of raising said children is far more than a tax deduction.
So don’t do it?
Don’t ask me to help, anyway. I didn’t ask you to have more children.
Cry me a river.
I might, since I’m the one paying for a worse world because narcissists imagine more of their DNA makes the world a better place.
Yeah parents don't pay for shit in this world, right?
Far less than their fair share.
That’s before we get into all the subsidies suburbanites get from city-dwellers.
You're wildly overestimating how much monetary and societal benefits there are to parenthood.
You’re wildly overestimating how much I want to see the world population go from 8 to 9 billion.
You made a selfish decision and expect the world to bail you out.
Yeah you're the victim here. go cry some more.