Boys and Girls in Space

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, sraj wrote:
>

> We can debate the amount by which the rich should be taxed more than
those who have less. But can we really question the need to tax
differentially, especially in our existing economic system where there
is no limit to the amount a person can earn?
>
> Selvaraj

Sure you can, so long as you can see beyond what we're all immersed
in. You could have a tax system which taxed income by the number of
children a couple had, thereby increasing the incentive for the well
educated to have children, because the amount that they would save on
taxes would grow proportionately as their income grew, and create
disincentive for the poorly educated to have children.

For example, a single person making $100,000 per year pays X tax. A
couple making $100,000/year pays X/2 in taxes. A couple with 2
children making $100,000/year pays X/4 in tax. This presents a big
baby bonus and ongoing annual tax relief to society's most able to
have children, and for society's least able, instead of supporting
them with all sorts of welfare programs, which don't penalize, and may
actually encourage, having more children, such a program would
disincentivize having children, for the tax savings on an income of
$10,000 would be only 10% of the savings from the higher income couple.

Work can be done by substituting technology for human labor and we can
thus increase productivity.

TangoMan