According to a report from German media group RND, federal Health Minister Nina Warken has prepared a draft bill that would have adults without children pay a higher percentage of taxes towards publicly-funded elder care.
According to a report from German media group RND, federal Health Minister Nina Warken has prepared a draft bill that would have adults without children pay a higher percentage of taxes towards publicly-funded elder care.
It’s shitty because it comes from a fucking Christian party, full of regressive fucks, in a country where abortion rights are terrible (on western European standards at least).
There’s a billion reasons people don’t have kids, and while money is one, there are many more that the government could try to address. But no, they want tradwives.
If I’m to pay more for retirement because I don’t have kids, then why shouldn’t parents pay more for the education of their offspring? Childfree workers are already paying “more” than what they get, no need to make the matter worse.
Ah and let’s not forget: tax the fucking rich. Maybe we won’t see 80+ old people picking up empty cans in the street.
You could absolutely argue that childcare and kindergarten are chiefly to the parents benefits but school is not. In fact when school was first made mandatory it was a huge blow to many parents as they lost another worker at home/ their farm. School is for the benefit of the children themselves and as a society at large. You benefit from kids being in school because you can live in a more educated society, also you yourself went to school so it’s only fair you pay for others to also go to school.