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- From: adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson)
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- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:16:37 -0500
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- In article <1993Jan21.162247.6376@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.015406.4055@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >>This tax would also cause a tremendous increase in "quickie" marriages...
- >
- >Fine by me.
-
- But don't you understand that this sort of quickie marriage is the exact type
- which shoots the level of divorce up? I just don't see why you have nothing
- against marriage of convenience, and can't understand that there is
- no fundamental difference between two people who get married so they can have
- sex and then divorce when they realize they can't stand each other, and two
- people who DON'T marry and simply break up when they realize it. Either way,
- any resulting kids end up in the same situation.
-
- >>>At least the "Illegitimate-conception Tax" proposal would
- >>>spread the cost of that behavior over a wide base of "irresponsible"
- >>>unmarried, fertile, sexually-active and unlucky adults, and leave them thar
- >>>good, upstanding, married, abstinent, lucky and/or sterile/barren folks
- >>>economically unscathed. Valid state objective, no?
- >>
- >>No.
- >
- >Why not? What's wrong with economically punishing those "irresponsible",
- >unmarried, fertile, sexually-active and unlucky adults?
-
- The point, in case you are truly as stupid as you appear, is that punishment
- is supposed to be for doing something WRONG. And at the risk of repeating
- myself, NOT EVERYONE SHARES THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY! The fact is that
- your tax solves none of the problems you say it solves except punishing
- something simply because YOU disagree with it.
-
- You truly are an idiot.
-
- Will.
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