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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm for across the board breaks... your specific suggestion will have childless folks up in arms. Do they get a tax break for doing extra work this year living in their tiny apartments? Just saying.[/quote]

Why are they doing extra work in their tiny apartments? I don't understand. If there is some specific way that childless people are being burdened during the pandemic, I'm all for relief to them. I just don't know what it is they are doing or what they need help with.[/quote]

Doing extra work = covering for our colleagues who are parents 
Tiny apartments = because we don't have kids. 2 people working in a small apartment even without kids is tough.
Moving expenses= see tiny apartments. Some childless folks want to move because they lost jobs or need more space for working.

Jesus. Parents aren't the only people affected. We ALL are. Do you think childless people have been sipping champagne and kicking back carefree? The only people who really haven't been are the super rich.
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Lol, define tiny. My DH and I have been working from our small apartment (less than 1000 square feet) with our child, who is home all day and doing distance learning, with no childcare, since March. We do not have one home office, much less two. We work at the dining table, which is in our combination kitchen/dining/living room, while our child does DL 6 feet away in the living room. We start our days at 5am so that we can spend the day trading off between feeding/teaching/assisting our child (who is 5 and not even remotely independent yet) and doing our jobs. We meet our deadlines and make all our meetings. No one is covering for us and we are afraid to ask them to, specifically because of the perception that we might not be "pulling our weight. Our days end at 9pm, as we both get a couple more hours of work in after our child goes to bed, and then we go straight to bed because we are exhausted from full days of doing nothing but work and childcare, every day for 11 months.

Yes, everyone is impacted by the impacted. People with young children are more impacted. Our kids are suffering for it.

Sorry about your small apartment though. I get how spending so much time with a partner or spouse really wears you down, as I have been living it.[/quote]

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