SS is the same as in: it still compensates the SAH parent.
For the same reasons I cannot claim EI when I quit my job, or do not qualify for EI if I never work, I am not a supporter of SS. I truly do not believe the SAH parent is more or less deserving for making an informed choice to not pursue a career or to give up a career. Again, if there is a will, there is a way, it was a calculated risk and they made an informed decision to take that risk.
Another interesting tidbit: SS is tax deductible for the payor and supposedly taxable by the recipient (the mom in our equation paid no tax last year despite a very good income of SS and other income).
However, an intact family cannot elect to pay a salary to the SAH parent and tax that salary in the SAH parent's hands. This is no coincidence. It is also a violation of human rights as they "salary" is only taxable and payable subject to marital status: divorce. Yet both payments are compensatory (for this argument anyhow as I do understand there is compensatory and non compensatory SS). This is fact! A man tried to pay his wife a salary for her domestic and child care duties while in an intact marriage and it was denied by CRA... I have looked for the article but can't find it
For the same reasons I cannot claim EI when I quit my job, or do not qualify for EI if I never work, I am not a supporter of SS. I truly do not believe the SAH parent is more or less deserving for making an informed choice to not pursue a career or to give up a career. Again, if there is a will, there is a way, it was a calculated risk and they made an informed decision to take that risk.
Another interesting tidbit: SS is tax deductible for the payor and supposedly taxable by the recipient (the mom in our equation paid no tax last year despite a very good income of SS and other income).
However, an intact family cannot elect to pay a salary to the SAH parent and tax that salary in the SAH parent's hands. This is no coincidence. It is also a violation of human rights as they "salary" is only taxable and payable subject to marital status: divorce. Yet both payments are compensatory (for this argument anyhow as I do understand there is compensatory and non compensatory SS). This is fact! A man tried to pay his wife a salary for her domestic and child care duties while in an intact marriage and it was denied by CRA... I have looked for the article but can't find it
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