I did some of the math on this Rep. Duffy guy in Wisconsin with the six children and the beat up minivan he says he drives. You would be shocked how some people milk the tax code for all they can get.
For example, six children is good for $22,200 in exemptions. Not too shabby. Now, I know some people actually need those exemptions, but others are clearly greedy and are abusing it rather shamelessly. Be fruitful and multiply, and never pay taxes again. It needs to stop.
I propose that the maximum number of exemptions a taxpayer can put on his or her Form 1040 should be capped at four. You, your spouse, and the oldest two of your children. Once those are all grown up and out of the house, the two exemptions that they represented should go away as well. Think about it.
And because certain overly generous politicians saw fit to add a Child Tax Credit on top of all that - $1000 per child - one can see where someone overly gifted in the area of fertility could just tell the IRS where to go. Even after the phase-out for our Wisconsin assemblyman's $174,000 salary, with that many children, he was still able to claim around $3000 worth of credits. Does that make sense? I think not. The Child Tax Credit opens itself wide open for abuse, is redundant, and should be abolished altogether.
I mean, why should the rest of us subsidize certain people's idiotic family planning decisions? Isn't that the very definition of socialism? Isn't that what our glorious Democratic Tea Party should be fighting against? We should be taking to the streets screaming and yelling about taxpayer abuse like this, and make people like Rep. Duffy pay his fair share.