[bassmaner]

This reply to this need to be screamed:

This is why more and more people in America and the West in general are choosing not to have children.

[Clock King]

Good! Because the single childless individual who is sick of loosing their freedom is the greatest threat to the Control Freak Powers that Be.

[thecabal]

Agreed. I question whether I want to bring children into a society where it is drilled into them that their first allegiance is to the State, not their family. Increasingly, it seems that parents have been reduced to mere caretakers for the State, who can be yanked from the job at the whim of the employer.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This is why more and more people in America and the West in general are choosing not to have children.

Like taxes, like all socialist panaceas, at bottom they are fantasies of absolute power.

You can't raise the price for legitimacy - tax rates - without reducing legitimacy, causing people either to work less or to work off the books. And you can't intrude into privacy via the children without making people less likely to decide to have kids.

Of course that fact doesn't register with people who brought us the Social Security Trust "Fund" which is actually an IOU the government wrote, and continues to write, to itself. When it comes time to actually redeem that "I owe myself," it will be only too obvious that that piece of paper is not an asset which will be of any use to our grandchildren when they have to pay our Social Security. And grandchildren that we do not have certainly won't help either.