I'll stop insisting that people with multiple children get tax breaks, just as soon as reproductive freedoms for women are guaranteed in the constitution, including abortion on demand, free access to birth control and reproductive education for both sexes (not just "the girls")when the "flat tax" rates for income takes into account that it is women's income/earnings that are impacted by childbearing, not men's over a lifetime. The flat tax, without taking the earning/income realities by gender into account, is draconian as hell, and virtually guarantees that many women will be held in poverty, to make the tax structure "more fair" for people who don't have children, whether by choice or by biology.

Unless and until those little matters get cleared up to level the playing the field, I'll resist the ideas of flat tax NicoleC is presenting as not only unreasonable, but punitive.