Thank you.
Dean's comment about the unfairness of child care because of his neighbour reminds me slightly of the argument that the health care system is unfair because I'm well and my neighbour gets sick and only my neighbour gets to use it. I don't accept that. But there's one point he made that I do agree with, even though it might have caused me to question my beliefs, and that's on this question of income splitting.
To Mr. Braniff, I don't understand why we should discriminate by age against the young, the middle, or the old. If we have a limited amount of money—and I agree with the principle of income splitting—why don't we say that all households can income split up to, say, $60,000 joint income, or $50,000 or $70,000 or $80,000, depending on how much money we have available in the budget? Then it would be available to all, except we would ration it out not according to how old you are but according to your income. As resources become available over time, we could then raise that threshold income. Why is it old people and not middle-aged people? Why not do it according to need?