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Add an extra zero to that. Then we might consider
“Why aren’t people having kids?”
You know, aside from the world being on fire
Would that even pay to get the damn baby out of the hospital with insurance?
How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?
Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn’t care
The Nazis did it
Guess, in no particular order, could be all these or none of these:
Someone told him about runaway population decline now being taken seriously in SK and Japan, we’re not quite in the unrecoverable zone yet. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250404-south-korea-is-over
5000/child is enough to get a rural wageslave to bolster their numbers and create the next generation of right-wing voters, but not enough to get left-wing educated people who can make reasonable guesses 9 months into the future.
5000 per child is cheap and it’s enough to gain him popularity where he’s just starting to weaken.
I feel like that’s more than $5k in the picture if they’re all $20 bills.
Those stacks aren’t 100 dollars each that’s for sure… More like 1000… I count at least 47 stacks… So let’s round to 50…
Yeah that’s 50k, which is definitely more than 5k
50k, […] is definitely more than 5k
Source?
Look at the picture and count
Seems like fake news. Do you have any studies backing it up? 50k > 5k definitely doesn’t sound right.
Yeah, I counted at least 50 stacks of $20 bills. Usually those stacks are 100 bills each, so over $100k in that pic.
I sometimes joke with my kids and call them Lamborghini 1 and 2, because that’s how much money it was suggested you would need for each kid, and I’m sure that has doubled or tripled by now.
$5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that “nobody wants to work” because they’re still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago…
Trade:
- One person’s wages
For:
- Mortgage payments on a reasonably sized house
- All bills
- Food for two adults plus children
- Entertainment
Then you might see more babies.
It was their greed that caused this.
That roughly the total on what was saved with doge.
I get your ribbing. But it’s sad if people think they saved anything.
They literally mathematically added way more debt and cut gap.
Yeah we don’t need govt workers…who contribute to tax base. Nah…
So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they’re totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?
So they’re stupid?
You just now noticed they’re complete idiots? :D
That looks more like 50k, 5k can easily go in pants pockets.
WE CAN’T DO THAT, IT’S LIKE PUNISHING THE MOMS WHO ALREADY HAD CHILDREN!!! /s
That’s the nice thing in a social democracy
When the next generations has better education, my pension fund will be more filled
In practice though, it seems people are the same kind of stupid…
This is literally going to be an argument if people start proposing free daycare/child care :/
“I had to suffer so you should too!”
It’s already been done to college students - that’s the parallel I was trying to draw
What are the odds this is just Clinton’s $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?
Except this time there’s no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.
Honestly… This is kind of on the right track.
It costs way more than $5k to birth and raise a child. This is only going to be incentive for the exceptionally poor and extremely stupid, which is likely to be the point because those people and their children are what continues to feed our exploitation model.
I’m not sure what you mean, but if you mean giving people cash, yes I agree. It’s just far too small an amount to make a difference. People have a variety of needs, and while some might benefit from daycare, others would benefit from diapers, while still others could use a decent car seat. Cash is fungible, and people can spend it how they like.
We spend more on preventing fraud and administering social services than we would spend it we simply gave everyone money. A negative tax rate on a sliding scale would do the most good for everyone. Yes, some people would spend the money on drugs or alcohol or other addictive vices, but the effort to stop that costs more than just letting it happen. It’s like we have a swat team at the Dollar Store to prevent shoplifting.
But $5,000 is insultingly ineffective.
Oh yeah, I agree it isn’t enough and agree with all your points.
