The entire lgbtqia* community will be affected as well, even if they wanted children, which is incredibly hard to achieve as a same sex couple in Germany due to regulations and massive cost. So by default, 12% of the population will be taxed additionally without the possibility to ever get children. Yeah, thanks, that’s exactly what we needed: more discrimination.

Lots of comments are missing one crucial point: The government assumes that every child will care for their parents and thus save costs. But this isn’t true any more as many children move away from their home town or break up with their parents.

Making not having children unaffordable doesn‘t make having children affordable.

No, let’s not work on fixing the fact that it’s recently reached £250,000 as the typical cost to raise a kid to adulthood today. That thing that means many people don’t, and possibly never will, financially have the option to.

Then there’s the people who could financially make it work, but can see the current trajectory we’re on as all but guaranteeing a life of suffering for a kid, despite otherwise wanting one.

Let’s kick all those people whilst they’re down

Taxing the rich is the only solution and Nina Wanken doesn’t want to do it.

And all this while the rich get richer. You know that most people without children are probably also not married? We already pay wayyy more taxes. Fuck the CDU and this incompetent, right-wing just-another-lawyer-in-parlament.