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Ah yes, the conservatives plan to boost the birth rate has finally come to bear a rotten fruit:

• People can't afford to have kids
• People can't afford to feed kids
• People can't afford to shelter kids
• Therefore they won't have able bodied kids to keep the retirement and tax doles fulfilled
• Nor will they have able bodied soldiers for war

But they're boosting the birth rate! (they aren't, actually, the rate will be even more in decline since the replacement rate in the US was held up by immigration like in most countries, and dumbfuck's actions have brought a stop to that).

This wouldn't even cover the hospital bill for most people lol.

And since hospitals know moms will be getting an extra 5k they will just add that into the cost somehow. /s

• A: This is the 'bad' kind of incentive. My mom worked in a hospital where people would come in pregnant, tons of neglected kids in tow, asking how much wellfare they could get for the next kid. Stuff like vouchers for school, care, healthcare and stuff doesn't incentive that.

• B: It's hilariously inadequate and out-of-touch. $5K for childcare these days is a joke, even as a nice supplement.

...But that's the point. This is for show, like Trump's COVID checks with his signature on them. It's a brand to tell people "Hey! I'm Trump, and I'm helping you!" directly, a decent idea poorly implemented for PR purposes. It's also hilariously hypocritical, seeing how much 'blank check hand-outs' were criticized for decades.

The average cost of delivering a baby in the US, including pre- and post-delivery expenses, is roughly $18,865. However, this figure can vary significantly, just gotta come up with the other 14000 dollars lol do Amerikans know other countries don't gouge their citizens for everything including birth? Land of the fee home of the slave

Fash privileging heteronormativity in order to increase servitude and hasten planetary destruction? Fairly normal in our culture.

It's free to give birth here

He should know that you can't buy that many diapers with $5k.

Unless he doesn't do his own diaper shopping I guess...

5000$ is a lot. In Germany you get only 250€

With the tariffs that hardly helps.

Heard they planning to do same shit in Russia. Honestly, I don't think this will work in any country.

Wages have not kept up with productivity and GDP increases since the 1970s.

How about making single income middle class families possible again, so you can have one stay at home parent.

Daycare cost $2k a month

Is that for real? That's more than (many) private schools in Europe.

It won't even cover the cost of giving birth. This is some real "how much could a banana cost" energy.