I not a believer in a flat tax, but we can find some common ground here. Illegal or not, I don't think anyone should get a cash payment for having children. We already subsidize the hell out of child-rearing (schools, Head Start, medicaid, libraries, etc, etc.). If you can't afford kids, don't have them. This isn't a rich vs. poor thing for me, either. We always hear the stat about how almost half of wage earners don't pay any Federal income tax. Everyone assumes is the lower earners, and that's BS. I pay taxes on my (childless) middle income; there are people who make a lot more than me who don't pay as much or any taxes, because they get three, four, five dependents. I don't think I should have to subsidize anyone's gaggle of children.