Hence the normalization of "one income families" where mothers could stay home with babies and kids could focus on school. Now taxation has grown enough to create great pressure for both parents to work, with consequences leading to calls for "mincome" precisely so pressures to earn can be relieved - without realizing that relentless demands for government spending (ever demanding more revenue from taxpayers) will just exhaust that source as well and result in even more cries for financial assistance. Cut government spending, stop demanding ever more revenue from citizens.