"..i.e. stop the income and tax payers paying for their children..."

I agree with you completely. Also tax payers money should not be used to procure/develop prohibitively expensive nuclear weapons, fighter aircrafts, submarines and other arms and ammunition. They should not be used to participate in unnecessary wars and development of highly expensive missile ssytems and bombs....

i think these consume hundreds of times more tax payers money than what is used for welfare and benefits of citizens...