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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by notch898a on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:34PM (#34918385)
Works that way with lots of things. My kid gets a pretty generous existence off ~10% of our post-tax salaries. Not because we are rich, we just don't waste money.

In a divorce, the state says I would need to pay 20% pre-tax (like 30% post-tax) or go to fucking jail. There's no rational reason why the kid is always going to need 3x the money in a divorce, and that reason be so dire it's worth throwing someone in jail for not paying it. The reason turns out the state gets benefits based on both the small administrative cut and based on the amount of child support outlays.

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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by gowld on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:04PM (#34919243)
Benefits how? If your kid doesn't waste money, why does it matter whether the money is your account or theirs?
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by alwayslikethis on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:15AM (#34922612)
You are forced to give it. If you lose your job or somehow cannot manage your cashflow for a moment, you go to jail.
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by notch898a on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:32AM (#34922725)
Or if you just get hijacked by terrorists while ironically working the job to come up with money for the child support [0]. Should have kept mailing the support while a gun was pointed to his head.

[0] https://greensboro.com/ex-hostage-jailed-in-child-support-ca...

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