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Re:Actions rooted in open source culture can make a big impact by nivenkos on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:55AM (#31477411)
And yet a lot of so-called "progressive" countries (e.g. Sweden and Germany) punish child-free workers with extremely high income tax to give handouts to parents (Barnbidrag + Kindergeld).

It's not even means-tested so they're literally taxing struggling workers to pay rich parents just for knocking out more babies.

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Re:Actions rooted in open source culture can make a big impact by Kbelicius on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:06AM (#31477949)
> It's not even means-tested so they're literally taxing struggling workers to pay rich parents just for knocking out more babies.

I'm glad to inform you that besides struggling (child-free) workers there are also rich (child-free) workers. I'm sorry to inform you that besides rich parents there are also struggling parents.

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