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Jack's avatar

I like the tax waiver idea! If attached to the mother it would have a secondary benefit, namely encouraging men to stay married to the mother of their children (lest they lose the tax benefit). Two-parent households are shown to have many positive benefits for children.

The US has a get out of jail free card here in the form of immigration. There are no lack of young people who want to move here, and we let in about 1m annually vs. 3.6m natural births. I suspect that politicians' first instinct will be to turn up that spigot because it's cheap and has other benefits, but it begs the question of how long other countries will let their people freely emigrate when the population crunch comes in earnest.

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Onos's avatar

I see news articles suggesting Hungary planned to try something along Bryan’s idea in 2019. — women with four kids pay no income taxes for life.

A nit: what about the time value of money? If we expect a kid to generate X of taxes in their lifetime, that’s not worth X to the government now, cause they have to pay interest on their debt.

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