Only among the very stupid
So half the population
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Like I’d take it if I’m planning on having a baby anyways. But yeah, it’s an absolutely pathetic amount. And childcare is only going to get more expensive with this fucking administration
Yeah childcare is gonna be more expensive, but they'll loosen the regulations so that anybody can be a childcare provider, without any background checks or anything, so more people can charge more money. And no vaccine requirement, so more kids can go. It's win/win/win. /s
Anybody but trans people you mean
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So that's $5k per month, right? Right?
What's interesting is 5000$ today is about 129$ in 1860.
Slaves were, on average, worth about 800 bucks in those times. I'm not sure how much a baby would be worth, but even if it comes to a quarter of what a full grown slave is worth... that means that they literally think we are worth less than slaves...
In my country the government decided to give hundreds of euro each month for 6 years to who have a baby (my friend gets €400/month) but SURPRISE! Birth rate didn't increase
In Germany it's something like 260€ per month until the child turns 25 if still in education (university, apprenticeship) (26/27 if the child served one or two years as a soldier or in a social or climate project)
And yeah birth rates didn't increase either AFAIK
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I wonder how much woke stuff we can get for the purpose of making babies.
Mandated paid maternity leave?
Child tax credit?
Maybe some universal medical coverage for the mothers and children?
What are you, a socialist?
Place where I live also gives about the equivalent of 5000 USD for a birth. My wife got a single room in the hospital (very basic public hospital, but not a room with 4 other mothers). The 5k just about covered the medical costs for the pregnancy, birth and the additional cost for the room for 3 days ...
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Lmao anyone who thinks this is a lot of money has clearly never raised a child in the recent past. (Let's say 10-15 years? idk)
$5k is gone, like that
Just use all that stimulus money we got! When was that? Like 2 or 3 times... 5 years ago... Uh. The poor! They're stealing all your money!
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After we had our first child we went to some institutions to fill required papers. In the waiting area, there were informational posters everywhere to tell people to not get pregnant too early. One read:
A child costs you 160.000 € until its 18th birthday
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Where is all this daycare money going? My daycare was like 8 ladies that just sat around in a playroom doing arts and crafts with us all day and took us to the pool and library in summer. They could have covered that on 2/3 kids each at 40k a year/kid. They didn't seem to be particularly well off...
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Sadly, I could see this convincing people desperate enough for cash...
Those poor fucking kids.
That's absolutely what this is for. Uneducated people have more kids; trump lives the uneducated. Those kids grow up to lick their oppressors boot, or end up in the prison system. Either way it's a win for conservatives.
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