Why should I support someone else?
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| Sat, 12-30-2006 - 1:24pm |
Let me start by saying that I"m new here so this may have already been discussed, but this has come up in my office several times and I wanted to get some other views of this.
I do payroll for a rather small company so I know most of the workers and their wives (most of the workers are men due to the nature of our business). There are two in particular who's wives SAH. These two are up to their eyeballs in debt. I have bill collectors constantly calling for them. That part is really their business, it is annoying but I enjoy being rude back to the bill collectors, lol.
The part that bothers me is that both wives have been in the office wanting copies of X amount of check stubs so that they can go and get public assistance (I know because they told me that is what it is for)! Why should my tax money go so that these women can SAH? I know that not all families that one parent stays at home are like this, but I know lots that are. Heck, growing up we were always broke because my mother refused to work, but we weren't on any public assistance.
So, why should I pay for a woman to SAH? Why can't she go and get a job to support her family just like anyone else?


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Guess that's just a personality difference then.
Edited 1/29/2007 1:11 pm ET by egd3blessed
I have not read this thread, so I'm not trying to make a larger point than this, but kids do not need stuff. Babies do not need cribs or strollers or specialty items.
I have three kids (oldest is almost 10, youngest is 4). None ever used a crib. Also, we owned a stroller because it was a gift, but it wasn't used. You don't need any of that stuff. Now a lot of people do own things like that, and they do use them, but none of that baby stuff is a necessity, beyond the same basic clothing and shelter that any human needs.
Those items can be found cheaply, for free, or not at all.
Crib?
We didn't wait for the house either.
define afford.......if we couldn't *afford* our sah arrangement,i don't know that we would have ever had kids.
Jennie
Forgive me Jennie, but that makes no sense to me. How is a personal choice irrelevant?
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