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by mcny 1179 days ago
> like $4500/mo for daycare

Ideally, I’d like to see an end to all silly credits, deductions, and exemptions and things like that.

It is absurd to me that you would want to not pay taxes on your daycare expenses. I think the proper solution is for the state to offer free of cost (actually free of cost, no hidden charges) daycare for all children. This is just the tip of the iceberg though. We are just overly against supporting all parents. All children, regardless of income or assets, should have access to WIC and ideally we should increase WIC age to eighteen. We should remove income, assets, means testing from all entitlement programs.

> the truely wealthy derive their cash flow from investments which are taxed at half as much, or own businesses and deduct expenses to effecting 0%

How can we fix this?