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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What an idiotic post. You want someone who earns $0 to pay taxes?!?![/quote]

Op here.  No.  I don’t want that.  The point of the post was that in discussion of HHI, it should be taken into account when one person is providing $40k worth of service for the family for free.  I mentioned that this is typically paid for in post tax income in the OP because a family would need to add an additional $60-70k in HHI to make up for it, not because I think SAHMs should pay taxes on income they didn’t earn.  [/quote]

Since these discussions of HHI are totally anonymous, totally arbitrary, and just for the sake of inane message board debates anyway, it's perfectly fine if someone wants to add another $70,000 to their HHI to account for otherwise unpaid labor to benefit their household. Who would object, care, or even know you were doing that?

But you also asked earlier if people should pay some tax on that labor, to which the answer is obviously not. (For one, we don't tax labor, we tax income.) So you can see why people are getting a little confused by what you're arguing here, maybe?[/quote]

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