Higher taxes equals Destruction of the American Family

When people spend half their wages paying taxes, it takes two people to make what one person without takes would have taken home. Is it any wonder that more and more households have both parents working? How does that affect the family unit?

For one thing, it means day care and babysitting: Someone else is taking care of the kids. I guarantee no matter who they are and what morals they may have, the values these stand-ins are instilling in the children are not all what those parents would approve of if they were there. And so the kids are not being raised the way the parents would have if they were there.

Our children are curious creatures: We share values and understanding on many things. By extension, we assume that we share similar views on things not yet experienced. Such as when we send a child off to college, we think they will strike a balance between work and play while avoiding risky behavior. But many do not. At younger and younger ages, the problem is more pronouced: The chance of the child straying from parental values increases. It is now legal to leave a latchkey kid at home alone at age 8. Is this a good idea? No. Is it necessary in all too many cases? Yes, due to economic reasons.

And what happens to the tax money collected by the government? Much of it goes to welfare, with a special emphasis on single parents. It started out as a magnanimous gesture to help those in the greatest need. But it has grown and evolved to encourage mothers to stay single in order to maximize their benefits. In other words, they are paid better to have a broken family.

Just as a beaten child grows up to be a child beater, a broken family begets more broken families. All of this has a disorganizing effect: Individuals are less likely to be brought up in a nurturing environment, less likely to rise in terms of self-sufficiency and more likely to be poor, leading to even more of the same in the next generation.