Isn’t socialism grand.
Wagglebee I think this story be in your pro life list
It's always about the revenue...
Have some cheese with that whine!!! Argh!!
It would be much BETTER for our economy if there were more babies and moms staying home. The government will have to adjust. This country is FOR the people, not FOR the government.
Demographics decides the victor.
Funny how governments stand behind a woman’s right to choose when it comes to abortion, but not when it comes to a woman’s right to choose to have more children.
This is insanity. Sure, women out of the workforce might affect labor availability, but raising those babies costs money that is spent in the economy—clothes, medical, food, etc. I’ve never heard of anything so stupid in my life.
When these people look at you, they see an annuity, not a person.
A drag in the immediate term perhaps, as they consume a lot of resources and produce nothing. But what would happen to the economy in the long term if everybody stopped having kids?
Freerider ping?
Why don’t the members of the Productivity Commission put their money where their mouths are.
Australian government busybody should study the cost and carbon footprint of faulty government studies.
This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read.
Damn morons!
As if your sole purpose for existing is to make money for the government to take !
Up theirs !
Have lots of children, families are the only thing in life really worth having.
Note that this analysis assumes that the worth of a person in society is completely summed up by the amount of tax revenue they pay. The purpose of the individual, in this analysis, is to support the state, and nothing more.
This is an accurate reflection of what the modern socialistic state thinks of the citizens.
The other problem is that liberals don't want new jobs and apartments to be created because it will spoil the environment. So now we have a surplus population with no place to go.
They should replace the title, Democrats are a drag on the economy. That would sound more logical.
With few exceptions, those having more than two or three children are the very poor who are not working anyway.....
I was thinking about the post-feminist effect of women in the work force. It would seem to me that the overall effect has been to depress wages for families making it generally harder to maintain two parent families. Economic stability is not just based on the ability to find cheap labor and provide a tax base. That is the flaw of socialism. It is not about increasing quality of life it is about increasing the available funds to the growing bureaucracy and those who control the bureaucracy. Any bureaucrat that sees growing his or her tax base as their function should be dealt with harshly.
I have four kids and I consider it my finger to the modern world to have even more. I’ll make as much money and have as many kids as I want. My wife stays home and home schools not because she has to but because we together decided it was better for the kids. I’ll teach each of those kids how to shoot and how to be skeptical of those who want to raise taxes and grow government. Fighting the collective should be the badge of honor for every red blooded conservative. We do not have to accept the idiocy of those who’d have families fatherless and fathers emasculated. The world does not have to be the way it is becoming. Weakness is not a virtue. Being a victim is not a blessing deserving of compensation from those who did not victimize.