[Tauzero]

Re: #9 -- excellent

I'd only add that Pat's demographic observations are perfectly consistent with economics: if you tax something more ( middle-class families with children ) you get less of it; if you subsidize something ( old people, out-of-wedlock births of the poor) you get more of it.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes you're right. It's so hard to touch all the bases in a relative short article. There are so many issues associated with this that it's very hard to do the topic adequate justice in the space provided. It almost demands a book to counter the false charges on each of these threads.