US Economy and the Family Proclamation

I recieved an interesting letter in the mail today and it has led me to this conclusion: Within the next several years, the US will still be in debt, but divorce rates will show a marginal decrease.

You see, the letter I recieved today was from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the agency to which my child support payments are recieved and monitored. The letter states this:

A new federal law requires that an annual fee be paid on child support cases that recieve $500 or more in [annual] child support payments. The purpose of this fee is to reduce the federal deficit. Idaho Child Support Services received approval for a temporary rule to charge custodial parents and began collecting the fee on October 1, 2007.

After implementing the mandate, the Department and Governor's office recieved considerable feedback from the public and custodial parents about the added expense for child support enforcement being placed on custodial parents. Based on this feedback the Department is reversing the decision to charge custodial parents and will collect the fee from non-custodial parents....


As a non-custodial parent who never gets to see his children I was a little miffed by this proposal. One that I, and others in this demographic, are being shouldered with a national responsibility and two, that I am being charged more, but still have no real argument for seeing my kids.

Regardless of my personal feelings, it's finally a proactive idea for reducing the national deficit. You can't ask for much more, I will be curious to see if this will actually work...if it doesn't remember this:

Vote Phillips in 2016!!!

(that's the next presidential election in which I will be eligible to run;) )