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- From: garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod)
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.002301.28218@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Followup-To: soc.women
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan18.032012.19296@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan21.165017.6703@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:23:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.165017.6703@rotag.mi.org>, kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan21.134202.14357@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
- > >Kevin Darcy (kevin@rotag.mi.org) wrote:
- > >: In article <1993Jan17.163155.20964@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- ........
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- > Women seeking to go on welfare are currently forced to reveal the paternity
- > of their children, unless there is a real danger that the father may commit
- > violence if his identity is revealed. The civil liberties organizations have
- > already fought that battle, and pretty much lost it. This Tax would require
- ......
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- The statement that mothers requesting welfare are required to
- reveal paternity is only true in two or three states. For the other
- fifty-one or fifty-two jurisdictions MOTHERS requesting WELFARE are
- NOT, repeat NOT, required to name the father.
- I lobbied in Indiana in february and march 1992 to get such a
- requirement into law and was out-lobbied by the feminists in the
- Indiana Dept of Health and Human Services. I was amazed at the negative
- response to a measure which was intended to reduce welfare cost to
- the state. (Of course, I think the child support enforcement division
- did not want to see a work-load increase!)
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- David Garrod
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