Archived Parents, save up: Cost of raising a child is more than $233K (wtop.com)
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Archived Parents, save up: Cost of raising a child is more than $233K (wtop.com)
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[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago
But those tax dollars are constant and apply whether you have kids or not. Whether you happen to like the system is beside the point. The question is how much will you will end up spending on a kid if you have one. This report does a terrible and misleading job of answering that.
[–] daskapitalist ago
"My neighbors subsidize my kids so they dont really cost that much!" -Your "logic"
[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago
It is not a matter of my logic. It is a matter of political reality. This is /v/personalfinance. The OP is about a report which purports to state the amount parents can be expected to incur in raising children. By its own terms it excludes costs which are not paid by parents directly (so it excludes not only your tax dollars, but theirs). Taxes are going to be charged and collected by government and spent by government regardless. Of course, if government stopped, then the cost to the parents would go up.
The current system isn't likely to change anytime soon, so there is no point in calculating a value of the cost to society and attributing it to each child when the question is how much a parent must spend. You can be as butthurt about how your taxes are spent as you want, but it doesn't affect my point. Indeed, it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.