Some governments say how many children a family can have in their country. They may control the number of children someone has through taxes. It is sometimes necessary and right for a government to control the population in this way. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer.

The

government

of any

country

owes

her

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citizens an

overall

duty of protecting their interests.

This

is why they were elected into office in the first place. A family, which makes up part of the

country

, equally owes its

country

some reasonable measure of responsibility in ensuring good and smooth governance. Having established the symbiotic relationship between a

government

and a family, it is imperative to succinctly examine one of the ways by which the

government

provides for the needs of

her

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citizenry. One of the means is through

payment

of

tax

.

Tax

is the money paid on

income

generated over a particular period of time. It is usually deducted monthly. The major ideology behind its

payment

is to develop the

country

. It is one of the several revenues a

country

has. It is calculated based on a particular percentage. The higher your

income

, the higher your

tax

! It's been laid down in

such

a way that it is fair and crosses across both the upper and lower classes. In a family of four, which consists of

father

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a father

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, mother and two

children

; if the father pays a third of his salary as

tax

, and his wife pays an amount close to his, that cuts down on their

income

for the month.

This

is an

income

that is

not ordinarily enough to cater for the entire family before

tax

.

This

would help the family plan their lives better.

For instance

, in Nigeria, the highest

number

of

children

expected of a couple is four. Looking at the instance of the family cited above, since their incomes are taxable, thereby reducing their

income

for the month, they would have to think twice before they could plan to have another baby because, the cost of catering for a child, from the point of conception to the legal age of eighteen, when the child could fend for himself or herself, can be jaw-breaking! Usually in Nigeria, which is the case study here, an average parent would fend for their

children

till they graduate from a higher institution of learning. There have been cases where

children

who lacked the basics of life turned out to be louts. They fended for themselves from an early age in life, wandered around

the

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society and eventually, some of them,

due to

peer pressure, gave way to criminal activities and ended up as

menace

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a menace

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to the same society. I can recall vividly,

a

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girl of sixteen, who lacked parental care

due to

financial

constraint

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constraints

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, went into prostitution in order to make ends meet. She later contracted HIV, spread the disease unknowingly and increased the

number

of people living with the virus, which is against the goal of the Nigerian

government

in the fight against the spread of the virus.

This

would of course cost the

government

more money in the sensitization exercise, prevention and treatment of HIV. Aside

the

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above, as the

number

of citizens

increase

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increases

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, so does the expenditure of the

government

. There would be more money to allot to each sector of the economy to ensure citizens are well taken care of. You cut your coat

according to

your

cloth

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clothes

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. When the expenses of a family

is

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'curtailed' through

tax

payment

, it becomes logical for them to engage in family planning, so they can birth only the

number

of

children

they can reasonably cater for. In conclusion, I strongly agree that the

government

should control the population through the

number

of

children

someone has by enforcing the

payment

of

tax

,

although

, that may not be the only way.