No Mr. Bond, I expect you to procreate

Wow, two political posts in a row. Bush is a murderer!

Remember last year or so when Peter Costello offered (and is still offering) a wad of cash to parents for each baby born? I don't like Peter Costello on a good day, but that "One for the father, one for the mother and one for the country" line made the vein on my forehead show. Why the hell should my *cough* hard earned tax dollars be used to subsidise Darrell and Sharee Bogan to spit out more Tylers, Madisons and Taylahs? In fact you can ignore that question mark, it's not a question because the answer is obvious.

I was looking through Mosnews to get material for another post that I had in mind, and then I found something that made my jaw drop onto my keyboard in a comical fashion, producing the following sequence of characters: bn hjn,mmn

Apparently, mother Russia is considering a tax on the childless as a way of stimulating their falling birthrate. A tax. Believe it or not, I actually enjoy paying tax. I am the only person that I know who is like this. I think that money for the common good will eventually be money well spent, but I can't see any common good here. It's like taxing people for being left-handed.

If you tax a business for not doing something that they will lose money on, that business will leave for a country without such a tax. If you tax a person for not having a kid, you can kiss that intelligent, productive former citizen goodbye. Think harder you fucks.

Every first and second world country faces the same problem of an aging economy. There are less young people to do the work for the old folks. Australia is offering money for babies, Russia is threatening taxes for not having babies, Japan is developing robot carers and Boredomistan executes citizens upon retirement age. Another strategy is to make people work for longer, the ABC is working the cast of Playschool until they're 110.

How's this for an idea, a baby deposit! If you want a baby, you'll have to elevate yourself until you're in a position to afford one. Your offspring will have a better upbringing thanks to the money coming in from the better job you got to be able to afford them. Once the child hits 18 you'll get that money back, with interest, which you can use to feather your empty nest. If you treat children like a commodity, idiots will aspire to get one, and along the way become less of an idiot. I should be Prime Minister.

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Yeh good idea dipwad. Forced abortions if you don't have the 'deposit' to have your kid? Or chastity belts that you only get the key to when you pay your deposit (reminds me of a tennis court). You're going to simply create a kiddy black market where wives & kids are locked in basements to avoid the pregnancy police. Unless of course your post was in jest, but it's hard to tell.

I think you are on the right track however. We should be encouraging people who are in a postition to support their kids to have kids. Not encouraging bogans on centrelink to have more kids to get the bonus and get more centrelink. I think mandatory reversable hysterectomys for all women born in Australia. Once a couple complete a rudimentary course they gain their 'parents license' which enables them to have their tubes unclamped. Ha.