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The logic is that parents bear an outsized cost for providing an essential social good: the next generation. When we are old, we will need taxpayers to pay soc
by humanrebar 8y ago
The logic is that parents bear an outsized cost for providing an essential social good: the next generation.
When we are old, we will need taxpayers to pay social security, well trained healthcare workers, emergency personnel, maintained roads, etc.
Parenting is also especially expensive: child care, safety equipment, larger homes, larger vehicles, etc.
Without getting in the weeds on putting a better dollar figure on it, that's the case for subsidizing families.
- yostrovs 8y agoThe "next generation" saves its own money and uses it as it likes, or rather indebts itself even further than the current. It's not necessary that the next generation will lead to a greater good. And regardless, most people will have children because that's just what animals do, mostly regardless of political considerations.