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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Really, I am just annoyed when people on this forum dismiss childcare expenses when talking about HHI.  [/quote]

Think about it this way, OP. In your system SAHMs would be taxed for their labor - meaning in reality that their DHs would be taxed.

However, if someone decides to have a non-working spouse at any other point in their life - that labor is not taxed. Your solution is to create a tax on families? That makes no sense.

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OP here.  No.  I was being much more petty than that.  In my system, about 1/3 of the salary (to a reasonable extent) would be added to the HHI of a family with a SAHP when having these discussions about UMC vs MC.  
 I really never meant to say that SAHMs should be taxed.  I was responding to someone who took my OP bass ackwards.

But I do feel that most childcare costs ought to be pre-tax.  The current system is unfair to both working mothers and childcare workers because often the amount people are able to pay for childcare is based on the parent’s after tax pay.  [/quote]

Your post is absurd.  You get tax credits for child care costs that a SAHP does not get.  As a SAHP, when my child was 5, we did a 9-3 preschool to get them prepared and they missed the cut off.  Before that we had preschool costs.  It is absolutely fair as children are a choice and you should not get subsidized.

Some of us don't work as child care is more than our income.[/quote]

The tax credits barely cover any childcare.  I am not arguing that childcare is not a choice, but rather maybe we should incentivize more women to work by not having them pay tax on their childcare payments.[/quote]

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