• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    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.

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    How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

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      I was surprised that bands of 20s could add up, but then I remember how you can fit a million dollars in a suitcase with 100s lol

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    Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can’t expect people to pay for public services themselves; that’s done with taxes. Corporations can’t have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don’t need past a limit if they aren’t investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn’t doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

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      60 years ago, wages were sufficient that one partner could be a homemaker even if the other only had a modest job, and they could afford a house and a car. We’ve only needed daycare as wages have stagnated against the cost of living.

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    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?

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    $5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that “nobody wants to work” because they’re still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago…

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    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).

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      Yeah, I counted at least 50 stacks of $20 bills. Usually those stacks are 100 bills each, so over $100k in that pic.

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      Those stacks aren’t 100 dollars each that’s for sure… More like 1000… I count at least 47 stacks… So let’s round to 50…

      Yeah that’s 50k, which is definitely more than 5k

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      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.

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    What are the odds this is just Clinton’s $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?

    Except this time there’s no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.

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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

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      Is that the cost without insurance? Or with? Because it seems low to me. I had a 4 night stay in a detox clinic and they charged my insurance $32,000.

      “Land of the fee, home of the slave” Jesus fucking Christ that’s a fucking great line. You come up with that or is it a quote from someone/something?

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      I get your ribbing. But it’s sad if people think they saved anything.

      They literally mathematically added way more debt and cut gap.

      Yeah we don’t need govt workers…who contribute to tax base. Nah…