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> Child support Presumably, Child Support would no longer exist for anyone. Children are people, with no income, they would essentially get a child-version of
by maxsilver 13y ago
> Child support
Presumably, Child Support would no longer exist for anyone.
Children are people, with no income, they would essentially get a child-version of basic income, paid to their parents, to raise them, regardless of all other circumstances.
(Similar to US taxes today, where the government effectively pays you some a small amount of money simply for having a child)
If a couple conceives a child, and one parent abandons the other, the single parent keeps the whole state-provided income for that child, and uses it to raise the child.
It eliminates the whole "penalty" system for distant parents, and if those people eventually get jobs, they pay into the basic income system just as anyone else does (so they aren't dis-incentivized to work).
- Jayschwa 13y agoThat seems like it would create a perverse incentive to breed unnecessarily.
- brianpgordon 13y agoGovernment workers in Sweden get 13 months paid maternity leave. That's a pretty good incentive. But they rank 187th in the world by birth rate, according to the CIA World Factbook.
- aianus 13y agoNo, that's a pretty shitty incentive since I can't raise the kid for 18 years on my fond memories of paternity leave. A recurring cash payment meeting or exceeding the costs of raising the kid on the other hand...
- boomlinde 13y ago> I can't raise the kid for 18 years on my fond memories of paternity leave. How does that make it less of an incentive, though? It's better than no paternal leave. In the end, though, people usually don't get children on a purely economically rational basis. Sweden also has daycare prices that scale with income, free and relatively high quality public and private schools, child benefits and free dental and healthcare for children.