• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

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

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      18 minutes ago

      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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    10 hours ago

    $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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      9 minutes ago

      Guess, in no particular order, could be all these or none of these:

      Someone told him about runaway population decline now being taken seriously in SK and Japan, we’re not quite in the unrecoverable zone yet. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250404-south-korea-is-over

      5000/child is enough to get a rural wageslave to bolster their numbers and create the next generation of right-wing voters, but not enough to get left-wing educated people who can make reasonable guesses 9 months into the future.

      5000 per child is cheap and it’s enough to gain him popularity where he’s just starting to weaken.

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      55 minutes ago

      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…

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    23 hours 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.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    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.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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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      6 minutes ago

      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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      23 hours ago

      You mean, they’re using irrelevant and unrelated content in the message for shock value?

      Impossible.

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      22 hours ago

      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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    1 day ago

    This wouldn’t even cover the hospital bill for most people lol.

    And since hospitals know moms will be getting an extra 5k they will just add that into the cost somehow. /s

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    24 hours ago

    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?