@Anonymous wrote:
Wow child support on the FICO forum--interesting!!
What is even more interesting TNWM is that you think ALMOST $400 a month for a child is too much.
If you were taking care of your child on a DAILY basis and not a part time dad like most you would be begging to pay ALMOST $400 a month.
Here's the rub: I'm not taking care of my child. That's not where the money is going. It's going to my ex so she can sit on her rear end and play video games all day (she's remarried).
I proposed to her that she get off her butt, get a job (didn't even have to be a full-time job, just part to most time) and take care of day-to-day expenses from that, while I put the money I was paying her into long-term savings and investments for our daughter's college education. Since that would have interfered with her video game habit, she said no way.
But aside from that, I don't believe the government has the right to force me to pay a surtax for being a divorced father. That's called "communism," the system under which everything I produce rightfully belongs to the State and the State can take whatever it pleases. And if I wanted to live under communism, I'd move to Cuba--at least there citizens get "free" health care and housing. (Actually, I'd love to be able to buy whoever wrote the child support laws a one-way ticket to Cuba or North Korea...they'd likely feel right at home there.)
But what communists like the State of California child support people don't understand is that, before wealth can be stolen or redistributed, it must first be produced. They cannot confiscate the fruits of my labor if I'm not laboring in their jurisdiction. And this has been the downfall of communist systems worldwide: when you distribute wealth "from each according to his abilities, to each according to her needs," the able inevitably desert and all you have left are the "needy."