Imagine coming up with policies that actually help people rather than punish them. This is weird and sets such a dangerous precedent.
It’s weird because that’s basically the entire Republican voter base.
No no no, I thought he would only do this for other deadbeat dads
The Republican voter base typically doesn’t leave their home county let alone travel abroad.
So now they can’t vote as well cause of the voter id shit, disenfranchising more.
Ding ding ding. These assholes ran the numbers.
Normalization of removing rights. They’re coming after political opponents next.
I live outside the US but can’t renew my passport because I’m trans. They started a while ago
What do you mean “next?” Watch closely which party the parents they pick on belong to. 10:1 odds they’re disproportionately Democratic.
*Black.
I don’t like this at all and it’s wrong.
Also, fuck parents who don’t pay child support for their own kids.
Also, fuck parents who don’t pay child support for their own kids.
I can’t wholeheartedly agree with this statement, only because it puts the onus on the lowest rung involved parties.
Instead, I believe “fuck governments that don’t provide enough support for a single parent to comfortably raise a kid.”
I don’t have kids, I don’t want to have kids, but I also don’t want to live in a world where a kid could starve or succumb to the elements because their parents weren’t ready to have or raise a child. If a parent who doesn’t pay child support means that their child’s well-being is negatively affected, then a child with only one living parent could experience the same negative effects. Why should any single parent, or child of a single parent feel stress due to the absence of a single-entity third party?
Working in education, I frequently meet parents who don’t want to be parents, and shouldn’t be parents. I met people who believe that financial support equals ownership, and only continue harming their children because of mandated financial responsibilities. I meet single parents who are legitimately glad that the other party doesn’t pay child support, because it equals freedom from oppression or abuse for the parent and child.
This comment kinda sounds like I’m attacking you, and I apologize for that, it’s not my intent. My intent is to break as many people as possible from the belief that it’s okay that raising a child costs two incomes. Raising a child should cost zero incomes, so that the people raising a child can experience the child as just a child and never a financial burden. I can’t even say “fuck parents who don’t help out,” because there are plenty of parents who I don’t want to see involved at all.
From the article:
Passport revocations for unpaid child support of more than $2,500 is allowed under a rarely-enforced 1996 federal law.
Previously, the consequence was only doled out when people with such debt sought to renew their passports.
So, not new, just being more strongly enforced.
Edit: more context
Except for billionaires obviously
Okay everyone, say it with me!
It’s because they’re black, isn’t it?!
Manosphere meltdown incoming
President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996
Never forget how shitty Bill Clinton was.
Outside of specific shitty Bill Clinton reasons, the problem is enough of the electorate bought into the lazy welfare queen myth and the Democrats got the presidency because they were third-waying it (and Perot and Gulf War I). Bootstrap fever was high in the nineties.
I’m fine with this. Pay your fuckin child support
What if travel is needed for work to pay?
If you actually give a shit about child poverty, universalist aid programs are a way more efficient and effective way to address that problem, but if you’re just looking for an excuse to punish people and helping kids is beside the point rock on I guess