Several countries have taken significant measures to try to encourage people to have more children and combat falling birth rates, but the U.S. is not one of them. Although the Department of Transportation was recently directed to give precedence to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” earlier this month.
Now Musk, who President Donald Trump tapped to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has vocalized support for tax incentives for mothers.
Elon is a Ketamine addict who would have ODd in the streets if he wasn’t handed hundreds of billions of dollars on a silver platter.
God Newsweek is bad. It’s fine to write that article, but you have to mention that Musk is working together with Trump and they’ve been pushing this bill that would raise taxes on families.
What kind of memory hole was the author operating in? You don’t have to focus on hypocrisy but you do have a journalistic duty to report it. That guy is a lying sack of s*** and you need to point that out if you want people to respect you and read your work in the future.
The last thing we need is more americans.
So you’re in favor of closing immigration channels?
Not that I actually give a shit what JD Vance thinks. But I do kind of wonder what JD Vance thinks waking up every morning knowing that he’s literally the vice president in name only and has no other function that hasn’t been completely taken over by Musk.
What things does the VP even do besides cast a vote in the event of a tie-breaker and prevent the destruction of the space-time continuum?
Vance was the arranged marriage. Musk is the trophy wife.
Instead of paying people to have kids… Why not universal healthcare including birth control? Why not outlaw forced births?
This is just some misogynist fantasy from an extremely misogynist fascist.
As wages get suppressed further and the middle class shrinks humans become cheap resources for corporations to exploit until they are no longer able to work and are disposed of for the next crop of new even cheaper human resources. They want an exponential growth of human resources as opposed to it becoming a scarce commodity that starts becoming more expensive to use.
They want cheap, plentiful, stupid labor that is easily fleeced and will fall over itself for shitty pay and shitty work rules. They don’t want an expensive, well treated, unionized and intelligent workforce that will keep the wannabe oligarchs in check. They don’t want to spend any money on labor. They want labor fearful and controlled when only their employer can offer any hope of obtaining the benefits you mention.
Turns out making the planet unlivable makes people not want to make more people.
How about UBI for all children? Or, if they really want to produce a baby boom, all children born on or after 2026-01-01?
But then the very next thought in my head is:
Republicans: do black and Mexican kids get it too, just for being citizens?
Society: …yes?
Republicans: and even if their mom is single and sometimes smokes weed and is also black?
Society: yes, they are still Americans under 18.
Republicans: nope, burn it down. Take back everybody’s money. I already spent mine though and it is not fair to put undue hardship on me by demanding it back just because of some lazy black toddlers who ignore the call of the mines!
Good fucking Criminey I hate this bastard. Bro just wants generations of cheap wage slaves for him and his buddies to harass. The world will become a much nicer place once he dies on a Ketamine binge or something.
I just feel like he doesnt do it, hed be more self aware and a better person, I think he lies to seem coll because ketamine was a cool meme for a bit
Ketamine is a very safe drug
If you’re not taking large doses of it on the regular, sure, but he is. The long-term health effects will be astounding, should he survive long enough to see them.
Whoever supplies him could do us all a massive favor… Just a tiny bit of fentanyl is all it would take.
lemme guess. the law will be written in such a way that it very narrowly defines a situation where a father with multiple children with multiple mothers, and billions in unrealized ‘earnings’ each year, could split their own income between them, file jointly several times over, and end up getting back billions in earned income credit instead of paying in anything?
This is who is running your country
Dude looks like baron Harkonnen.
Not smart enough
Baron H. Was the bad buy in the first book, but if you keep reading that series you learn that having 1 all powerful leader is never really a good idea.
Just food for thought.
Lookin more like a Stimpy gross-up close-up every minute.
No sir, i don’t like it.
He looks like a giant roach in a rotting flesh suit
What happened to “Can’t feed them, don’t breed them”? Why do I feel this tax break would only apply to a subsection of the US population?
Sounds like they need children for the war machine.
Or general labor, for some reason Republicans keep talking about how they happily worked the fields when they were 10 or whatever. They just want to ensure child labor is available for all.
Reminder that Harris suggested a 6k tax rebate for parents of newborns, and even that isn’t really ideal but it’s the same idea as it helps offset lost wages and subsidizes childcare which is desperately needed.
And before you say “but why have kids if you can’t support them”— that’s irrelevant as far as society is concerned. Shit gets dystopian really fast when there’s no new people. We are supposed to finance education for similar reasons, too, as a functioning adult generation prevents … Well, all this crap we’re dealing with now.
Harris’ plan was bad then, and this plan is bad now. They’re both clearly attacking the problem from the wrong angle, and just trying to incentivize the creation of more workers to exploit.
I agree, I’m mostly pointing out the similarities. If we survive to the next ebb in power, I hope progressives can push it the way it should be.
Shit, i should type this into a pretty infographic somewhere, the number of times that i repeat it:
The labor market is a market, it is regulated by Supply and Demand. Less supply (fewer workers) ==> higher prices (higher wages).
That is good for the workers, and it increases the quality-of-life. That is a true socioeconomic strategy.
Musk is a grifter who wants to breed cheap wage-slaves who would earn almost nothing and who would spend their lives in poverty. Expendable slaves. If the people have fewer children, that becomes less doable.
It’s exactly why Republicans are so against abortion as well. Have as many babies as possible and dilute the labor market so wages go as low as possible.
As I mentioned elsewhere: Grist for the mill.
Less kids, less people to train to become skilled laborers. You don’t want to have an healthcare system at all when you get older? Make sure people have less kids and that those who do have a hard time sending them to school.
The Best countries in the world help parents raise their kids and those who don’t have them gladly pay taxes to help.
What good does it do to have cheaper healthcare by having cheaper labor when that very same healthcare becomes unaffordable at the same time due to that very decrease in wages?
Healthcare, as all things, is not naturally constrained to some maximum amount. You can have as much of it as you want, as long as you are ready to pay the price. Now, whether people can do just that, depends entirely on their average wages, right? So, having fewer people would increase the wages and therefore make healthcare more affordable.
I wasn’t talking about wages, not everything is about that. If there’s less people to train to fill the positions left vacant by people who are retiring then you end up being unable to fill said positions and you have labor shortages not just in shitty jobs that anyone can do, but in positions where your need highly qualified people as well. So you either need people to have enough kids to renew their population or you need migrants, otherwise you end up like Japan where they’re starting to panic and they finally realized that they would need to let migrants move in otherwise the whole country would crash because the birthrate has been so low for so long.
Socio-economic equality and general happiness is highest in countries where there’s tons of incentives to have kids. Maybe it’s about keeping wages low in the US, it doesn’t have to be. Give people incentives by not making it as financially stressful to have them and that means they can afford to send their kids to university. Remove all incentives and that’s how you create a cheap labor population of unskilled workers.
