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Reform suggest people without children should pay more tax as a punishment.
(www.independent.co.uk)
I love the fertility rate collapse story because liberals and capitalists cant solve it and seem unable to see that people arent having children because of capitalism, especially this later stage one. The more right wing among em always insist its pure culture and we just gotta get a different culture - so their hail mary (as stated in the article) is stuff like a national holiday to "celebrate families" and wouldnt you know it, people will be forced to work it regardless lol. Or if they're really using their noodles they'll be like "ah but Taylor Swift having a kid and other celebrities will make people ignore their material conditions and have kids." The really dark ones are when they suggest banning birth control (rates collapsed before birth control and they were higher even when birth control was around for 30 to 40 years before collapsing later), or just straight up forced birth- this is the Musk post unstated suggestion of "we might have to take rights away from women" kind of thing, think Gilead but worse.
Also, the idea of taxing childless people is bad on its face. Like regardless, some people are just infertile through no fault of their own. Tax em for a health condition, sure whatever 🙄 Secondly, we really want parents who only had kids for the tax benefits and not cause they love their kids?? They really can't square the circle while keeping capitalism, and they have to keep capitalism so I guess its just intractable then
