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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.171547.7009@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan18.231506.1082@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan19.040725.24918@rotag.mi.org> <1jkgjbINNeb0@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:15:47 GMT
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- In article <1jkgjbINNeb0@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>What do you think
- >>we have right now, Dennis? With the current laws, well-off single men are
- >>MAGNETS to the women you describe -- spend a night of pleasure, get
- >>impregnated by him, and rake in huge child support payments for 18+ years.
- >>What a deal! What a racket! *Any* child support scheme that's based on
- >>parents' ability-to-pay is going to affect people's choices of biological co-
- >>parent to some degree, yet any child support scheme which ISN'T based on
- >>parents' ability-to-pay is pretty unfair to low-income parents. It's the
- >>eternal trade-off. I think my proposal is at least a better compromise than
- >>the current system, since the economic incentives/disincentives are
- >>quantitatively smaller, and thus _less_ likely to affect anyone's choice of
- >>biological co-parent.
- >
- >You make it sound like the man has no choice in the matter.
-
- Does a man have MORE choices before conception than a woman does? Does a
- man have ANY economic choices between conception and birth? Does a woman?
- Spot the inequity.
-
- - Kevin
-