The application of these support standards through an objective process under the t0ax code would be more efficient and effective than the current system. This would objectify and prevent abuses within the support system by parents, unclog the judicial system, decrease the cost to taxpayers and civil commitments for non-support. This system should become part of the revenue service that can properly garnish wages to collect arrears as tax penalties within in less

time than when the amount triggers the DMV to suspend a payer’s driving privileges.36 If every parent knew every year for the rest of their life that their child was being supported based on an objective calculation that neither parent could alter, and that they would not be penalized success, then cases of non-support would dry up.  Divorce, illegitimate births, and “career moms” living on child support would become a thing of the past. Non-custodial parents would not be punished for productivity and incentivized to provide more if possible. Lastly, for those who are incarcerated for non-violent offenses and who are able to apply for work release programs, they would have an opportunity to work to pay their support, not suffer extreme

arrears, and be able to get out of arrears quicker. This proposal would save the federal tax payers and the tax payers of North Carolina billions of dollars currently being funneled into the Title

IV-D enforcement funds of the federal and state coffers.

We have a duty to our children as parents, to love and support them to adulthood. We have a duty as attorney’s and counselors at law to make the system better and more in line with our moral and foundational principals that built this great nation. As parents, we always want our children to be a little bit better than we are, and we must have principles to teach them and opportunities for them, that they can use as a foundation of their own pursuit. Our country has been founded on the principles that everyone has the right to equal opportunity towards the pursuit life, liberty, and happiness. Our country is not however, founded on a guarantee of prosperity on the backs of others labor. We must diverge from this paradigm of socialism if our children are to ever learn from our hard work and prosper from our example, and to pull our great State out of the economic quagmire of these economic schemes.

36 N.C.G.S. § 20-179.3