Which is tantamount to social engineering, and the government incentivizing people to have kids. I am against that no matter who, or how, they help.
Eliminate all deductions, every last one of them. We can keep a progressive tax structure, just without the deductions.
So in other words, you would begrudge those who bear the very high cost of doing something without with society itself could not continue to exist, the great 'gift' of stealing a little less money from them? You one of those 'big government' liberals?
Your obvious flaw here is that you can only envision this within the framework of the current statist system.
I agree with you that a lot of government spending is targeted to benefit certain people and not others, and I agree that it's bullshit. Lots of government spending is bullshit, and on a moral level, I view some of it as outright theft. This spending should stop.
That concept, however, is separate from the one we're discussing. Whether the spending is right wrong or indifferent, we're all required to pitch our taxes in on it. Just because someone else had kids, no, I don't think they should get an extra benefit -ABOVE AND BEYOND- someone who didn't.
It's not that I don't think parents should have less of their shit stolen by the government. I believe -everyone- should have less of their shit stolen by the government.
What I don't believe is that parents, in particular, should get a special consideration where this is concerned.
I also don't believe that you'll respond in a manner that says that you understand what I'm saying.