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Nothing, and I mean nothing, can convince me to have a child.

This isn't how you get me to have a kid. This is how you get me to dodge taxes.

This sort of America-centric analysis neglects the fact that birth rates have also dropped to well below replacement in other countries with governments and cultures very different from those in the USA, and that neither expanding the welfare state nor attempting to restore traditional values has reversed this trend in the countries that tried that. Thus a discussion of either potential causes or potential solutions which focuses specifically on the USA is fundamentally incomplete.

We have this already. It's called dependant deduction.

Families and having dependents already gives you tax breaks, ergo not having kids already is taxing childlessness.

Counterpoint to JD:

I am autistic.

Surely you don't want me generating more autists, right?

Ok. So let's talk about the two scenarios here if you can't afford kids.

1. You're taxed for childlessness, likely at an amount above the cost of a child or two, to "encourage" you to have children. You are now unable to afford that tax and thus, risk jail.

2. You have a child when you can't afford it to avoid the tax, and now have to bring up a child you cannot afford to raise in a government that actively doesn't want to help you in any way.

In short. You're fucked either way.

Ahh. Lebensborn. I should have made a bingo card with all the keywords of Nazi Germany. The Trump administration has it all. Censorship, GeStaPo, apartheit against minorities, Reichsparteitag, ignoring the law, using emergency laws to ursurp the rule, concentration camps...

Stop paying taxes altogether, you say?

Small government in action.

When the communists got the same idea in Romania, it failed spectacularly, filling orphanages with abused orphans

I have two adopted kids, but no biological children. I had a vasectomy after the adoption was finalized. My wife and i have a theoretical decade left where she can (unsafely) carry a child. We do not want more children. Would I be fucked if this happened? What if you conceive but have miscarriages? Would you be punished for something outside your control?

The answer to all of these is probably "Yes, the cruelty is the point"

They need everyone to pop out a ton of babies so we can have child labor replace the migrant farm workers they deported.

You know who this punishes more than just childless heterosexuals?

That's right. Couch fuckers. Unless his Chesterfield gets pregnant with an ottoman... 🤔

Taking a page from Putin's playbook. Anything but to alleviate the cost of living crisis, which is the main reason for people not having children. It is also a thinly veiled attempt to reassert dominance on women.

Can’t wait for my government assigned trad wife

Losing the incel vote will for go well for them

I've always thought it's insane we pay people to have children, but sure let's take that even further and tax those who don't.

Been done before

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Did JD Vance have kids by fucking his couch before his wife sat on it?

The article is worth a read and is not about jd Vance. That's just a anecdote from the article. They touch on the different approaches and motivations behind the pronatalism movement. The article ends on a non-apocalyptic and non-proscriptive note.

It makes political sense for them to demonise certain groups. The childfree movement has been quite vocal (or at least well publicised) of late, and it's super-easy to cherry pick some of the more extreme viewpoints from that 'community' and weaponise it against 'normal' people, conflating those opinions with the so-called left (as if deciding wether or not you have kids defines who you are politically). It's easy fodder for the media and, as always, successfully distracts much of the population from the fact that they're being bled dry by billionaires.