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[quote=Anonymous]Families with only one working parent are already rewarded in paying lower taxes than families with two working parents.

Example 1: my brother makes around $120k/year. His wife doesn’t work. They have 3 kids. They qualify for all kids of things-student loan deduction, stimulus money, child tax credit, etc.

Example 2: DH and I make a combined income of around $250k/year. We get taxed like 1%ers. We got no stimulus money, we don’t get the child tax credit, we can’t write off our student loan interest. We won’t get a break on college, we qualify for nothing.

And yet....my brothers family objective is how to save as much as possible. They do not spend money. They only have one car. They don’t travel.

Meanwhile, we employ a full time nanny, and we use a cleaning service, we get lots of take out, we outsource laundry frequently, we travel.

From an economic/tax perspective I feel like example 1 is already being rewarded with much lower taxes. We on the other hand, are job creators and yet I feel like we’re almost punished for both of us working.[/quote]

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