Several countries have taken significant measures to try to encourage people to have more children and combat falling birth rates, but the U.S. is not one of them. Although the Department of Transportation was recently directed to give precedence to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” earlier this month.
Now Musk, who President Donald Trump tapped to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has vocalized support for tax incentives for mothers.
Instead of paying people to have kids… Why not universal healthcare including birth control? Why not outlaw forced births?
This is just some misogynist fantasy from an extremely misogynist fascist.
They want cheap, plentiful, stupid labor that is easily fleeced and will fall over itself for shitty pay and shitty work rules. They don’t want an expensive, well treated, unionized and intelligent workforce that will keep the wannabe oligarchs in check. They don’t wan’t to spend any money on labor. They want labor fearful and controlled when only their employer can offer any hope of obtaining the benefits you mention.
Turns out making the planet unlivable makes people not want to make more people.
Not that I actually give a shit what JD Vance thinks. But I do kind of wonder what JD Vance thinks waking up every morning knowing that he’s literally the vice president in name only and has no other function that hasn’t been completely taken over by Musk.
Vance was the arranged marriage. Musk is the trophy wife.
How about UBI for all children? Or, if they really want to produce a baby boom, all children born on or after 2026-01-01?
But then the very next thought in my head is:
Republicans: do black and Mexican kids get it too, just for being citizens?
Society: …yes?
Republicans: and even if their mom is single and sometimes smokes weed and is also black?
Society: yes, they are still Americans under 18.
Republicans: nope, burn it down. Take back everybody’s money. I already spent mine though and it is not fair to put undue hardship on me by demanding it back just because of some lazy black toddlers who ignore the call of the mines!
This is backwards
Good fucking Criminey I hate this bastard. Bro just wants generations of cheap wage slaves for him and his buddies to harass. The world will become a much nicer place once he dies on a Ketamine binge or something.
Ketamine is a very safe drug
If you’re not taking large doses of it on the regular, sure, but he is. The long-term health effects will be astounding, should he survive long enough to see them.
Whoever supplies him could do us all a massive favor… Just a tiny bit of fentanyl is all it would take.
What happened to “Can’t feed them, don’t breed them”? Why do I feel this tax break would only apply to a subsection of the US population?
Even better…enforce laws against unlawful termination of pregnant employees:
lemme guess. the law will be written in such a way that it very narrowly defines a situation where a father with multiple children with multiple mothers, and billions in unrealized ‘earnings’ each year, could split their own income between them, file jointly several times over, and end up getting back billions in earned income credit instead of paying in anything?
Reminder that Harris suggested a 6k tax rebate for parents of newborns, and even that isn’t really ideal but it’s the same idea as it helps offset lost wages and subsidizes childcare which is desperately needed.
And before you say “but why have kids if you can’t support them”— that’s irrelevant as far as society is concerned. Shit gets dystopian really fast when there’s no new people. We are supposed to finance education for similar reasons, too, as a functioning adult generation prevents … Well, all this crap we’re dealing with now.
Harris’ plan was bad then, and this plan is bad now. They’re both clearly attacking the problem from the wrong angle, and just trying to incentivize the creation of more workers to exploit.
I agree, I’m mostly pointing out the similarities. If we survive to the next ebb in power, I hope progressives can push it the way it should be.
This is who is running your country
Dude looks like baron Harkonnen.
Not smart enough
Baron H. Was the bad buy in the first book, but if you keep reading that series you learn that having 1 all powerful leader is never really a good idea.
Just food for thought.
Lookin more like a Stimpy gross-up close-up every minute.
No sir, i don’t like it.
He looks like a giant roach in a rotting flesh suit
Sounds like they need children for the war machine.
Or general labor, for some reason Republicans keep talking about how they happily worked the fields when they were 10 or whatever. They just want to ensure child labor is available for all.
Cool. SO those of us who can’t or won’t breed have to subsidize the ones who do. Fuck that shit.
It’s not just the breeders. People are subsidized just for performing the religious ritual known as “marriage”. It’s a handout to the religious and heteronormative that oppresses everybody else. Always has been.
Children are the future generation. As much as musk is a shit hole, you’re also a selfish bastard for not wanting to allow children to grow up secure. Do you hate paying for school?
Fast forward. Retirement homes, health care workers, etc. Definitely will be the kids of now taking care of all of us as we get older.
We already do with a welfare system that incentivises un(der)employed single mothers with multiple children.
Even a married couple with multiple kids and minimum wage jobs can achieve a higher standard of living with entitlements than a single person with no kids, college education, and a job making above minimum wage.
Shit, i should type this into a pretty infographic somewhere, the number of times that i repeat it:
The labor market is a market, it is regulated by Supply and Demand. Less supply (fewer workers) ==> higher prices (higher wages).
That is good for the workers, and it increases the quality-of-life. That is a true socioeconomic strategy.
Musk is a grifter who wants to breed cheap wage-slaves who would earn almost nothing and who would spend their lives in poverty. Expendable slaves. If the people have fewer children, that becomes less doable.
It’s exactly why Republicans are so against abortion as well. Have as many babies as possible and dilute the labor market so wages go as low as possible.
As I mentioned elsewhere: Grist for the mill.
Less kids, less people to train to become skilled laborers. You don’t want to have an healthcare system at all when you get older? Make sure people have less kids and that those who do have a hard time sending them to school.
The Best countries in the world help parents raise their kids and those who don’t have them gladly pay taxes to help.
Grist for the mill.
