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They sure do act like it’s the 1930s alright…
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.
You mean, they’re using irrelevant and unrelated content in the message for shock value?
Impossible.
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?
You just now noticed they’re complete idiots? :D
I wonder how they’ll make it so it only applies to “Aryan” children. Hitler did the same shit.
They won’t call them Aryan, but it will be the same shit. They’ll call it something like Christian babies or some nonsense; then use that as a smokescreen for their racism.
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?
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
No need to put a /s there
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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.
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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.
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The average cost of delivering a baby in the US, including pre- and post-delivery expenses, is roughly $18,865. However, this figure can vary significantly, just gotta come up with the other 14000 dollars lol do Amerikans know other countries don’t gouge their citizens for everything including birth? Land of the fee home of the slave
Fash privileging heteronormativity in order to increase servitude and hasten planetary destruction? Fairly normal in our culture.
5000$ is a lot. In Germany you get only 250€
well, that's
per month until they’re 27 (as long as they’re still in school/university)
plus free healthcare for mother and child
plus free daycare (depending on the state)
plus free schools and universities
…We can all hope once the nazis leave, we too can be a civilized country.
If it’s like the civil war, we’ll kick them out and then build statues and name bases after them.
I’m with you here, but we need to keep in mind that the nazis never “leave”. We’ll need to forever and continually keep these bastards from power.
You forgot maternity leave, something the 'mricans don’t know, either.
whats leave
To add on, seems like the 5k (USD) is a one-time lump sum. Your price quote from Germany is already 3k (EUR) after a year. It only every outscales the 5k.
See. Let’s ping Trump and tell him about it.
Maybe he’ll see the light
He should know that you can’t buy that many diapers with $5k.
Unless he doesn’t do his own diaper shopping I guess…
It’s free to give birth here
It’s free to also commit murder.
It’s the part afterwards that might maybe kinda be the issue.
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.
Ironically, thats the exact idea behind the whole trade war thing. It has lead to TSMC already accelerating their plans to expand the Arizona microchip fabrication lab, which means… Factory jobs, the thing we used to have in the 70’s.
US economic output is more than adequate to achieve this already, but we choose instead to concentrate the benefits in the hands of a few.
Regarding tarrifs bringing back manufacturing: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/trumps-tariffs-what-is-behind-them-and-will-they-work “but this is very unlikely to work. Manufacturing has changed, with production now spread across multiple countries in so-called ‘global value chains’. Moving whole supply chains back to the US is going to be prohibitively expensive, result in rising consumer prices and make US-produced goods internationally uncompetitive. The model of manufacturing that underpins Trump’s approach simply hasn’t existed for the best part of 40 years, and is not coming back.”
That’s not going to solve anything because it’s going to make products more expensive, which is the ‘exact idea.’
Enrich American oligarchs instead of those abroad that might be giving us a better deal.
