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Just the fact of public schooling means they are on the dole - the legal plunder you want to stop - for around $6k/kid/year, so that's $124,000/year the taxpayer is paying (minus a miniscule amount of taxes collected from them, if any) versus the $10,000 one-time private charity they are receiving.

I have 25 cousins that are homeschooled (twelve in one family alone) using family funds exclusively (three other cousins are educated at private schools). Their parents are forced to pay for the state "public school" monopoly even though they receive no benefits from it. The same is true of childless couples and retirees that are forced to pay property taxes that are coerced "for the children".

It's not fair to criticize or punish one family for the injustices of the whole system. Government school is socialist by design: It takes money from some to pay for the state indoctrination of others. This is unavoidable, as no family can be precisely average -- having 2.54 kids and paying exactly average taxes -- in order to pay their "fair share" of education taxes.

Every family -- yours included -- is paying either more or less than its share of taxes for education. Injustice is unavoidable in this system. If you like me and Thomas Jefferson consider this arrangement to be evil, then work to get the state out of education completely. Start with your own family. And, in the meantime, stop attacking other families for being caught up in a system they didn't create and largely don't want.

That's all well and good when applied to a reasonably normal family, but given the current laws, this family having children it can't support becomes a direct expense for you and me. So to say they are blameless is untrue.

What happened to the concept of personal responsibility? And what in your mind is the conservative answer to a person who, unable to meet their responsibilities, and also unable to control the problem that caused said inability, foists that responsibility onto the society at large?

Someone wants to have 50 kids - fine. Someone wants to make me pay for those kids - not fine.

The government is not forcing these people to have more children - they do have responsibility for the situation, a hell of a lot more than the people who will end up paying for a large share of the raising of those children.