They’re not making policy for people who can do math.

Trade:

• One person’s wages

For:

• Mortgage payments on a reasonably sized house
• All bills
• Food for two adults plus children
• Entertainment

Then you might see more babies.

It was their greed that caused this.

I used to work as a teller at a bank. That bag of money is over 100k.

They sure do act like it’s the 1930s alright…

Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can’t expect people to pay for public services themselves; that’s done with taxes. Corporations can’t have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don’t need past a limit if they aren’t investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn’t doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they’re totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?

So they’re stupid?

I wonder how they’ll make it so it only applies to “Aryan” children. Hitler did the same shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

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.

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

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

I dunno what kind of diaper prices you’ve got in the US, but $5,000 covers diapers 10 times over in a year where I live… Should probably cover food as well, I would think?

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

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

Unless he doesn’t do his own diaper shopping I guess…