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Not sure if that applies here.

There isn't anything particularly hard to administer about sending a one-time box to every parent who has a kid. It's not even collecting any new information--everything needed is recorded during birth registration. Even the potential for fraud is limited, because generating fraudulent SS numbers is much more lucrative than cardboard box resale, and we already have systems in place to limit that.

A county or state could easily implement this, with well-scoped resourcing requirements and little chance of cost overruns.

My worry about fraud isn't about the mothers, it's about the politicians and suppliers who would run this program. Too many pockets getting in the way.

Well, your counter-argument is just as old.

Ummm... isn't the US GDP per capita higher than Finland's?

And couldn't we exploit economies of scale?