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Letter: Can’t afford your children? Don’t have them, and don't expect others to pay for them.

Related Topics: Expect, Child

The proposed gas tax hike topic just stuck with me as I completed taxes for the year realizing that over 75 percent of my property taxes pays for public education. There are certain institutional belief systems here as well as other lifestyles that promote multiple offspring as their form of happiness. Some belong to organizations that give their yearly income a break due to charitable donations and another federal tax break for having multiple children.

Those of us who haven’t chosen that path do not get either tax break but are expected to pay for those who do.