People without kids have to pay higher taxes (via rebates for parents), utilize less resources (public schools), effectively subsidizing people who want to have kids.
I'm all for protecting what's best for children, but I am not happy with people having children they cannot adequately support, causing other people to need to pay for them.
Because those children, when adequately nurtured (and proportional to the extent to which they are adequately nurtured), grow up to produce goods, provide services, and pay taxes that support the portion of society that can no longer do those things for money (which, with any luck, you will be one day).
There is plenty of reason to believe that the ROI of society subsidizing that nurturing is enormous, not to mention the second-order effects of that subsidy (like parents being able to balance their budgets more easily, consume goods and services other than childcare, and save for their own retirements such that they are more able to support themselves when they, also, become too old to work for pay).
Not to be harsh here, but non-parents (which I was for a very long time) are the ones kind of freeloading here.
Reproducing is such an important part of a society and humanity in general. Imagine everyone decided to be child free, what do you think would happen to the country you live in?
Countries with negative population growth often offer incentives for people to have kids because it can cause economic issues down the road and negative growth of the economy.
I would argue people without kids are freeloaders, all the "breeders" working full time jobs not only have to work but then go home and raise their kids to be productive members of the society.
The actual costs of raising a child are absolutely insane. Daycare cost alone is $20K a year for 4 years. That is enough to be a millionaire if you were to invest it in your early 20s. I'm not even going to talk how much time it takes out of your own life because its depressing.
Why should cyclist have to pay for public transportation?
Also children now will be your future doctor, nurse, bus driver, scientist, plumber, etc. so probably worthwhile making an investment in public goods that support their development.
But as part of the deal let’s make sure $0 off of the economic output of the offspring of “breeders” goes to your Medicare or social security.
Deal?
Day care is just the start of it. Being raised broke and working class isn't all that bad. Not being raised with a sense of community and security.. Might as well add prison capacity now for our little social experiment on raising social primates with the goals of independence from society.
Because "breeders" are the foundation of society. The most fundamental part of an on-going society.
Humans don't deserve to destroy the earth just so they can keep their ego projects going.
I believe you can always give your children up for adoption so long as all guardians agree to it.
It's not commonly desirable but it's what one would recommend for extreme circumstances like you stated.
Our society need people to throw at the money making machine
Time to start paying for them