Should Tax Payers Fund Paid Maternity Leave?
Australian mothers (and fathers) have to wait until after the next federal election before paid maternity leave is introduced here in Australia. I can sympathize with working parents. It must be a difficult decision where you have two incomes coming in and you live to the standard that those incomes provide. Leaving work and that income for six to twelve months can be a huge impost financially – but I have to wonder. Should Australian taxpayers fund a system that allows you to maintain that higher standard of living whilst staying at home to look after a child? It sounds like I am putting a negative on it – and I am. We are rapidly approaching an era where both parents will work and these working families will insist on tax payers funding everything. Maternity leave, child care and after school care. How much can the tax system carry is my question? I think there is a case for some type of maternity leave. I keep talking about ‘tax payers’ and these working parents are tax payers. I ju
