WileyCoyote
Active Member
When is the US government going to stop paying people for having children?
In order to explain what I mean, let me tell you a factual story.
In the 1940's in the US, the government started a program where they subsidized farmers who grew corn. In other words, they gave tax breaks to farmers who grew corn. Which was the exact same thing as paying farmers to grow corn.
So what was the one consistent fact gleaned from the analysis of this stupid program? It was this: when farmers get paid to grow corn, the one thing for sure is that more corn is grown.
The same thing is true of the US government subsidy of children. Giving tax breaks to people for having children is ludicrous, because the one thing it guarantees is that more children will be born (in an already over-populated world) than if the government didn't subsidize them. A very simple law of economics.
So you say that giving tax breaks for having children does not truly equate to paying people for having children? Well, you're wrong. An auditing accountant wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two, by examining the financial transaction books.
In fact, I think that in this day and age, as the world is headed toward over-population at almost light speed, that people should pay MORE TAXES for each child they have...in order to discourage people from having children without regard to responsibility.
But people on welfare, who get MORE MONEY HANDED OUT TO THEM FOR EACH CHILD THEY HAVE, would obviously disagree with me...
In order to explain what I mean, let me tell you a factual story.
In the 1940's in the US, the government started a program where they subsidized farmers who grew corn. In other words, they gave tax breaks to farmers who grew corn. Which was the exact same thing as paying farmers to grow corn.
So what was the one consistent fact gleaned from the analysis of this stupid program? It was this: when farmers get paid to grow corn, the one thing for sure is that more corn is grown.
The same thing is true of the US government subsidy of children. Giving tax breaks to people for having children is ludicrous, because the one thing it guarantees is that more children will be born (in an already over-populated world) than if the government didn't subsidize them. A very simple law of economics.
So you say that giving tax breaks for having children does not truly equate to paying people for having children? Well, you're wrong. An auditing accountant wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two, by examining the financial transaction books.
In fact, I think that in this day and age, as the world is headed toward over-population at almost light speed, that people should pay MORE TAXES for each child they have...in order to discourage people from having children without regard to responsibility.
But people on welfare, who get MORE MONEY HANDED OUT TO THEM FOR EACH CHILD THEY HAVE, would obviously disagree with me...
