Penalty Tax for People who don't have Children. Please see Icon.
The following is infuriating enough if you look at it as a citizen of a neighbouring country, but if I were German, I'd be fuming. Young German conservative politicians, lead by a bloke called Marco Wanderwitz who hasn't achieved much yet aside from looking like the kid on the Kinder chocolate bar and stirring up trouble by suggesting a "fat tax" for overweight people, had yet another brilliant idea:
Once you're over the age of 25 and don't have children, they want you to pay a penalty tax of 1% of your income. If you have one kid, it's 0.5%. Only after child number 2 you won't have to pay the tax anymore.
The obvious reaction by any person with more than two working braincells to such a pile of steaming horseshit would be "quoi?", followed by a swift kick up the backside of this ignoramus doofus and his removal from any position where he gets in contact with the public. But nooo...
Bavarian family minister Christine Haderthauer was open to the suggestion. "At the moment, there's an equity gap between people with children and people without children", she told the paper. "The one who builds the future and has children must not be burdened with the same contributions as the one who - no matter the reasons - doesn't."
Oh, where to start... you only contribute to the future if you have at least two kids? Yeah. Sure. C'me here and tell me to my face, buddy!
The whole thing is idiotic, degrading and insulting. What's next? Re-introduction of the Mutterkreuz?
Note: in German, there's no differentiation between "childless" and "childfree"; if you don't have kids, you're "childless". I deeply dislike the term "childfree", because translated to German, it echos some very unpleasant language from nazi times. That's why I refuse to use it.
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Once you're over the age of 25 and don't have children, they want you to pay a penalty tax of 1% of your income. If you have one kid, it's 0.5%. Only after child number 2 you won't have to pay the tax anymore.
The obvious reaction by any person with more than two working braincells to such a pile of steaming horseshit would be "quoi?", followed by a swift kick up the backside of this ignoramus doofus and his removal from any position where he gets in contact with the public. But nooo...
Bavarian family minister Christine Haderthauer was open to the suggestion. "At the moment, there's an equity gap between people with children and people without children", she told the paper. "The one who builds the future and has children must not be burdened with the same contributions as the one who - no matter the reasons - doesn't."
Oh, where to start... you only contribute to the future if you have at least two kids? Yeah. Sure. C'me here and tell me to my face, buddy!
The whole thing is idiotic, degrading and insulting. What's next? Re-introduction of the Mutterkreuz?
Note: in German, there's no differentiation between "childless" and "childfree"; if you don't have kids, you're "childless". I deeply dislike the term "childfree", because translated to German, it echos some very unpleasant language from nazi times. That's why I refuse to use it.
Molly originally posted this entry at http://joyful-molly.dreamwidth.org/362687.html. You can comment on LJ or DW, using OpenID.