The Duggars are one middle class family that is getting a huge tax break.

[El Supremo]

$55,800 in exemptions - by my calculations.

Is that the * administration's idea of a good reason for a tax cut for most families? Rewarding those who breed like rabbits for the glory of God?

I sure hope they pay their fair share of their public school tax.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1207208&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[carpediem]

1. their family website ...

http://www.jimbob.info/pictures.htm

[MissB]

2. They homeschool.

They probably still pay taxes, though. I'm guessing property taxes, so it isn't like they are paying per child. They aren't using the services, but they are paying for a portion of the services.

[TheFarseer]

5. of course they homeschool

I didn't even need you to tell me the people with 16 kids homeschool!

[MountainLaurel]

18. The hair could have told you that

That's some serious Pentecostal Hair Bow Women hair: They generally send their kids to private schools, but with that many they probably couldn't afford it. So, of course it's homeschooling.

[lisby]

3. They homeschool.

I swear this family is its own cult.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi lisby!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[mestup]

4. TV news sounds so circus freakshow anymore

(No offense to the family, if this is what they choose.)

But you won't see any features on impoverished third world families still cranking out the kids for a REASON.

[TheFarseer]

6. I get sick of

married people and people with kids getting all the tax breaks and I don't get sh*t. If you NEED EIC to raise kids, you should think twice about having them.

[elehhhhna]

7. You forgot the 16 Child tax CREDITS-- 1 K each right off the tax bill,

as opposed to deductions. Though I think there may be a cap on child tax credits.

That 7K Sq. Foot Mini-mansion probably carried a hell of a mortgage deduct., too.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. This is Arkansas! Check out the average income in this state. He

was a state rep. and had a salary of something like $28K. They must get money back from both IRS and state.

[NickB79]

9. Is this like the joke of the old lady at the grocery store

Who brings so many coupons the cashier is paying her when everything is wrung up? :-)

[elehhhhna]

15. If he's got a 7 K square foot house, he's got some money coming in under

the radar. You can't feed, house, & clothe 18 people on a pretax income of 129.00 per month per person.

[AlCzervik]

10. not for long if Bush gets rid of the mortgage deduction

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. He's a Republican politico. Therefore, in all likelihood,

they're paying negative taxes.

If I was an American resident, I'd be looking for ways to get paid under the table right now. Fuck the fundie leeches. :mad:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. I love being single and childless and not getting tax breaks.

:sarcasm:

[ProfessorGAC]

14. And, They Were The Ones Saying It DOESN'T Take A Village

Somehow, the tax code rewards having kids (I know raising them is expensive), but when Hillary wrote her book "It Takes A Village", they all howled over it.

But, the tax code is structured such that the whole tax paying public is paying a pinch extra so people with kids pay a little less.

So, apparently it DOES take a village, or a whole society.
The Professor

[elehhhhna]

16. Duggan misheard it as"Make a village"...

[ProfessorGAC]

17. A Very Funny Nonsequitur

It was off the point of what i said, but funny stuff, elehhhhna! Sometimes the best lines are those one least expects!
The Professor

[Brewman_Jax]

19. Is this not the same as welfare?

Getting tax breaks and exemptions, i.e. not having to pay, is as good as receiving a check. Difference is these are clean cut, "good" people in a new 7,000 sq.ft. house and not "those" people living in public housing.