Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“If subsidizing kids got the job done, we wouldn’t be seeing the birthrate decline we’re seeing — and there’s no particular reason to believe that boosting the subsidies even higher will change the fact that in ever more prosperous societies, people choose to have ever fewer children. And if that whole program that sounds like a bad fit with Trump’s policy of trying to deport millions of foreign-born residents … it is. If you want a higher birth rate, throwing out the people who have kids makes zero sense. Unless, that is, you couple the ‘demographic decline’ panic with a ‘Great Replacement’ theory positing that people who come to the United States and have kids are being ‘imported’ for the express purpose of changing American politics and culture in particular and negative ways.” (05/03/25)