Captain Lady Engineer Badass

This is monstrous. What she is proposing is a literal crime against humanity.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

Probably not!

I do! My in-laws were in their forties when they adopted my husband and as such, my father-in-law was one of the lucky kids stricken with Polio was a child in the 30s.

Now, he really was one of the lucky ones because he survived the initial bout of Polio. However, he had permanent damage to his lungs, joints and muscles. As he got older, he was in constant pain. He had heart problems, breathing problems, he was exhausted all the time. His last few years were horrible, not just for him, but for his family and friends who watched him decline much more rapidly than his wife and others his age.

I’m telling you this secondhand, because I never got to meet him. He died in his early 60s because of the effects of Post-Polio Syndrome.

Most of us don’t know someone with Post-Polio. We are all going to know someone with Post-COVID Syndrome, or Long-COVID, as they are calling it. And the effects are going to be bad and they’re going to vary. A lot of people are going to be living lives that are much shorter and much less pleasant than they need to be because of this fucking anti-vax mentality.