Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning - The New York Times
Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning
5K bonus isn't going to pay for the 300K it will take to raise kid.
If they were actually serious they'd be looking at the root cause of inequality, which progressives have been pushing solutions for, but we know they aren't, they just want more poor, uneducated, and desperate people and keeping people in their place.
Doesn't it cost way more than $5k to have a baby in the states?
Last I heard it was currently an average of $18k just for the delivery.
Depends on your insurance.. a sentence that says everything
Remember when they used to holler about people having more kids for the welfare benefits? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Sure but that's in regards to minorities. We all know what they are taking about having more kids here and what MAGA consider the White answer.
Raise the minimum wage. Offer universal Healthcare. Offer free childcare. Offer longer minimum, mandatory family leave time.
People would be humping like rabbits.
Won't work, apart from free childcare, the UK has your list: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvj3j27nmro
Remember when Republicans killed the child tax credit?
Jesussssss fuckin christ. Maybe create hope for the future? Strong economy, good wages to inflation, healthcare, programs and policies designed to help people, yada yada.
But noooooo "let's solve this by giving people a lil cash one time!"
The programs you mentioned will encourage the highly educated to have kids. Those who are making the decision not to precisely because of the things you mentioned. Those people will provide their kids with a strong education which makes them less likely to fuel the conservative capitalist shit show.
By creating a baby lottery, those with lower economic prospects who are less educated and informed will actually have more kids. And under the current economic pressures, those kids will be raised hungry and less informed creating a new army of wage slaves.
"Best I can do is resume student loan payments and wage garnishment" - Trump
This is insane. We have a housing shortage already and I suspect we'll see AI impact hiring in the next decade. Couple those with the fact that, despite Trump's best effort, there are still people willing to move here, and we don't need to encourage birthrates. We need education, housing and immigration policies grounded in reality and positioning the US for the next 100 years.
There isn't a housing shortage overall. There's a housing shortage in places people want to live, because NIMBYs insist on zoning restrictions that prevent developers from being allowed to build enough density to meet demand. Abolish that market manipulation and a lot of the problem would be substantially solved (along with a whole bunch of other problems like traffic, pollution, and obesity, too).
Raise the fucking minimum wage you idiots.
They are cutting programs left and right, would you trust the system and plan extra pregnancies based on whatever they offer? You'd have zero guarantee that it would still exist in 9 months, and they might even claw back any payments you do receive!
You could actually pay people what they're fucking worth, and give us the healthcare that our taxes pay for instead of spending a million dollars a pop to vaporize an illiterate brown kid on the other side of the planet.
But you know what would really help? A good old fashioned blood orgy, and we've got plenty of MAGAts that can supply the blood
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They aren't sitting around asking...Whyyyytho????
Just another page from Russia's playbook.
I look forward to these fuckers DE-SENTIVISING being childless. Charging you for NOT having any kids. You know it's gonna fucking come up in one of their dumbass bills...
May the Lord open
The GOP just need the baby growers to grow them and pop them out. Then the GOP can take over and make them stupid and desperate drone workers with no rights.
Explains making abortion illegal
Stopping abortions for now would be a good idea, yeah?
Abortion ban actually lowers birthrate.
Make life in general affordable again and people will have kids, its too bad you're fascist though. That also stops people from having kids.
Also make life worth living again. (which the republican party can't do...) Most Americans are miserable and overworked, with a bleak outlook on the future, why would someone willingly choose to bring a child into this country?
So you're pro-choice then? \s
I think, generally, the more economically comfortable people get, the fewer kids they have.
Poor and uneducated is a better recipe for unbridled reproduction.