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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

They just cut head start, slashed medicade(51% of us babies are born on this program), no medicade no pediatric care for your baby either, cut hud, slashed the department of education, blocked student loan forgiveness, are dismantling the aca preventative care mandate, gutting worker protections, canceling child labor laws, laid off 275,000 workers and destroyed their livelihood and tanked the economy ……yea the birth rate is going to plummet. 5k lol doesn’t even cover a fraction of the utter devastation coming to American families from these moronic policies. Who in their right mind would want to bring a child into this racist sexist tech bro oligarchy?

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

The Headstart cut hurts a lot. I know people that gone to that when they were little and had nothing but good things to say.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 12 points 20 hours ago

yea the birth rate is going to plummet.

I'm not so sure. Impoverished countries have the highest birth rates. I can imagine the logic of the wealthy 0.001% being "if we make the rest of the country as broke as Somalia, the birth rate will also be as high as Somalia."

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 18 hours ago

But that is a lot of complicated words, 5k is much easier to make a headline about, and re-elect the same people.

[–] GenXLiberal@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy - who don’t need them.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

Are you saying the game of achieving highscores for world's richest person with ever higher numbers isn't important? /s

[–] altphoto 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Having a kid will cost you much more than 100grand. Giving you 5k to fuck is such an insult.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm gonna need to see some math on how kids cost 100,000 because that doesn't at all add up with what I've spent for my two kids so far

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They'll need a population boost after Trump deny's immigrants entrance into America.

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 16 points 21 hours ago

monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

[–] qbus@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

$5k in a Roth IRA in the sp500 at birth is the only way that it is worth anything.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Haha, what's $4k in the sp500 gonna do? I guess having $3k in the sp500 is better than nothing...

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 217 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They chose to use a stock photo of a million dollars.

$5000 is only 2 and a half of those bundles of $20’s.

These people are trying to run propaganda for Trump, they can’t even keep their fascist bullshit straight.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 95 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but when you look through maga glasses, that's what you see when a black single mom of 2 receives a wic voucher for a couple gallons of milk.

[–] SavageCreation@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

You see, its not one black mom, its the millions of moms getting subsidies!

Lets ignore the part where we somewhy have a million moms needing subsidies.

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 116 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That won’t even cover half of the (insured) cost of even the smoothest birth with my plan, and I work for a multi-billion dollar company.

This country, man. Having traveled abroad a bit, you start to realize how tunnel-visioned people stateside can get. Don’t even realize how much they/we are getting fleeced.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Having traveled abroad a bit, you start to realize how tunnel-visioned people stateside can get. Don’t even realize how much they/we are getting fleeced.

It's the classic of someone having to visit a doctor while in Europe. And they're always shocked at how cheap it is in comparison. Even people who know it's much cheaper tend to think it's like 50% , not 99-100% less. I had an emergency room visit with blood and urine testing, painkiller injection, private exam room, etc.. It took a few hours and was about $25 that you could pay at a machine on your way out.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

I was gonna day $5k is just a handout to insurance companies for just the birth of the baby.

Which is, well, the end of Republicans giving a shit about babies and children.

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[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 176 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

WE CAN'T DO THAT, IT'S LIKE PUNISHING THE MOMS WHO ALREADY HAD CHILDREN!!!! /s

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Better Idea, let's fix the economy so people can afford to have Babies.

Or fix the world so we want to have Babies.

Or lower the price of housing so we have a place to put babies.

Or open forced breeding camps, shanty towns and and slave labor...oh wait.

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[–] peekingduck@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

It really is a bummer to have such a legitimately retarded man just riding this country into the earths crust all Slim Pickens style.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

Based on data presented here: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-raising-a-child

It takes a minimum of $200K USD to raise a child from birth to 18; which works out to ~$1K/mo.

If the Government were serious in wanting to address the aging population issue, the best way to tackle it would be to provide family funding at this level for a family’s first ~3 children.

Would it be expensive? Absolutely it would be in the initial term - but the increase in economic activity would arguably more than cover it in the long run.

Would it lead to inflation? Not if the costs were derived from taxes due to the government (which currently get dodged), rather than through national debt.

Would it lead to a positive outcome for the nation? Arguably yes, but there may also be unintended consequences to the negative. Human greed knows no bounds, after all.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Clinton Floats $5,000 Baby Bond

~ September 28, 2007

It's nice to know these two are still in touch.

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My personsl hypothesis is that when couples are living in times of prosperity or growth, they can see a future and can comfortably grow a pension, then they are likely to consider having kids. This also happens to be the time they are getting a share of the wealth society generates.

In recession and uncertain times, couples tend to hold of on getting kids, and if they do get kids, they do it much later in life, when they have saved some money.

Of course couples need free time as well. If both parents need to work full time, it's gonna be a lot less palatable to have kids.

I think the global low fertility is the problem of infinite growth self correcting.

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