Daddy Nobucks: When Involuntary Fathers Are Forced to Foot The Bill
What a pitiful, discouraging thread of comments: Tantamount to socialism, most of it is, all this mustered, angry bravado about paying consequences so as to reduce costs to society.
The entire notion of forced conscription into The Divorce/Custody/Child Support System — more of a regime, actually, as Baskerville aptly defines it — underscores nothing but enormous costs. Those billions are squandered in federal and local administration.
This left-leaning, nannyist tyranny is then, naturally, a huge assault on civility, decency, social excellence, education, and the like.
Make the bastards pay, say you! Because a hundred billion dollars in federal overhead is far cheaper than say, accepting personal responsibility and never having the kid in the first place. Do you not understand what you’re advocating when you blindly demand the state enforce child support blind to the particulars? Is this somehow such a mystery?
Do you also believe government schools educate? That Welfare ensures welfare? That there’s anything secure about Social Security?
Then how is it the federalized child support system (operating outside the Constitution and Bill of Rights, by the way) somehow supports children?!
Didn’t exactly work out that way here, did it folks? Our lovely child support system induced, in whole or in part, the fraud of the mother’s original choice! Is this somehow lost on you? Because your government, acting by way of that quasi-conservative social bravado, paid her to.
Your ostensible conservatism created a vast sea of collectivist legislation! Did you expect otherwise?
All because, in this thread, rightists adopt this impossibly misled belief that you screw, you pay, dammit, thereby saving the rest of us big dollars.
To make that claim is to profess utter ignorance of the system and its repercussions.
Please allow me to reassert an excerpt of my now-prescient comment from the third reply to the author, above:
You ask why this is so? It’s because of bad social law, enabled partly by leftist gender feminists who root for lopsided treatment of and by the sexes, and by rightists who mistakenly that the best way to deal with the Welfare State is by enacting bulletproof welfare enforcement, against any number of constitutional proofs and protections, that always force single fathers to pay, even if it has to create them, which it does by the legions.
Nice job. Enforcing the child support regime means you’re wrong economically, constitutionally, legally, and ultimately, socially.
