STAY-AT-HOME HOUSEWIVES-COMPLAINING ABOUT $400

The notion of Government taxes going into the pockets of people who do not work and have no intentions of engaging in work has always been bemusing.  If you stay-at-home to look after a child; you make a specific lifestyle choice that you should fund.  Claiming that stay-at-home parents do valuable work and paying them tax payers dollars for it means that you also need to pay the disabled and the elderly for doing their own housework, single people for doing housework too-to cook a meal you need one stove, one pot, one shopping trip; someone doing these things for other people still has to do one single act, but add a large volume of shopping, cooking food etc.  All of the other tasks a 'stay-at-home parent' does, paid for out of workers dollars, are the same as aged pensioners who struggle around their homes do, the same jobs as the disabled fiddle about trying to do and the very same things that single wage earners (who pay the most tax) must do at home-besides fund mums who do not want to work.  Do these stay-at-home and pay us tax payers dollars thanks individuals actually think that their previous employment or the employment of their husbands/wives covers what they cost the national-it does not! Australia is already in debt up to its eyebrows because of this give-me, give-me give mentality.  Needless to say if you want to be paid to work in the business of any of the taxpayers dollars you use you will need to prove your worth; the ability to breed does not immediately bestow the ability to be a parent and to raise a child. In fact, raising a child requires a different skill set at different stages of the child's development. All that staying at home and not working does is teach children that living off taxpayers is a lifestyle choice. It is not!  If you think that in eras go by women stayed at home to look after the children; you could not be more wrong. Women looked after the children AND ran farmers, ran shops and even worked as labourers. Yes we know that conditions have improved in the Western World and people no longer give birth one day and get up a few hours latter to work - but understand in many parts of the world that women still do that.  Not to suggest we return to such harsh conditions, but the sooner the so-called baby bonus is abolished along with the other 'special payments' families receive the better - this country can no longer afford it. Additionally, there is no reason why single taxpayers should fund families; these young people can no longer afford to buy a house or in some instances pay their light bills or have health insurance or even food. The solution is simple families - do not have children you cannot afford.  Love and the desire to breed is not enough.