"For decades, China harshly restricted the number of babies that women could have. Now it is encouraging them to have more. It is not going well." Governments should stay out of the marriage & baby business, & stay out of the bedroom altogether.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/world/asia/china-one-child-policy-birthrate.html#click=https://t.co/OxHED7eNra …
Should we eliminate tax benefits of having kids, like dependent exemptions and child tax credits? It's pretty hard to craft policies that are precisely neutral in terms of family incentives. Every nation-state imposes a population policy somehow; most just can't admit it.
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Correct. I think we need more pronatalist policies, since gov't incentives overall still have a somewhat antinatalist bias.
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Taxation is theft, so...yes.
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Yes, the population induced pandemic is nigh...
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Make abortions government funded and as a culture we should try to get rid of the guilt associated with abortions, while trying to increasing the guilt for having children before having financial stability.
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“Euphoric happiness from childbirth” is a “scientific fact”?? Citation needed! And why then would postpartum depression exist? But also, this is irrelevant to the above points
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Exactly, same goes for marriage. It's easier said than done, that a state shouldn't interfere. Because so many policies depend an the legal status of a relational commitment.
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Yes, and not only does almost every policy impact the total birth rate, it also affects its demographic distribution - it changes *who* has how many babies. Refusal to do it deliberately simply means getting an uncontrolled result, because there is indeed little truly neutral.
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