Several countries have taken significant measures to try to encourage people to have more children and combat falling birth rates, but the U.S. is not one of them. Although the Department of Transportation was recently directed to give precedence to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” earlier this month.
Now Musk, who President Donald Trump tapped to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has vocalized support for tax incentives for mothers.
Cool. SO those of us who can’t or won’t breed have to subsidize the ones who do. Fuck that shit.
Children are the future generation. As much as musk is a shit hole, you’re also a selfish bastard for not wanting to allow children to grow up secure. Do you hate paying for school?
You have it backwards. Having children is the single most selfish thing anyone can do. Nobody asks the child if they wanted to be born it’s purely about what the parents want and what they are afraid of missing out on. If you want to have kids, then you can pay for them.
As far as school, absolutely have no problem paying for education as society as a whole benefits from having well educated citizens.
Believe it or not, the majority of people don’t regret being born.
Who’s gonna take care of you in you senior years if no one has kids? It’s not just for yourself. It’s for the continuation of society
Fast forward. Retirement homes, health care workers, etc. Definitely will be the kids of now taking care of all of us as we get older.
Surely you recognize that this incentivizes greedy people (who are probably bad parents) to have more children more-so than it incentivizes responsible people?
From my perspective, anyway, I feel that this is more likely to cause more children to suffer.
We already do with a welfare system that incentivises un(der)employed single mothers with multiple children.
Even a married couple with multiple kids and minimum wage jobs can achieve a higher standard of living with entitlements than a single person with no kids, college education, and a job making above minimum wage.
It’s not just the breeders. People are subsidized just for performing the religious ritual known as “marriage”. It’s a handout to the religious and heteronormative that oppresses everybody else. Always has been.