The $5000 baby bonus may not be enough

UNCatTech said:
Exactly, the right claims it wants more children but their policies say otherwise.
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+1000. They want women (and let's be honest, we're talking about white women here) to have more babies, but they refuse to address any of the actual issues that are leading many young couples to decide not to have kids - childcare costs, homebuying costs and high rents for apartments, education costs, salaries not keeping up with inflation, and so on. Instead they offer tax breaks and other crap that actually does little to help couples with kids long-term.

And of course they know this, which is why they're using more insidious and underhanded ways to try and force women to have kids, like eliminating abortion to the point of making it a punishable crime in many red states, making noises about going after access to birth control, trying to push women to return to "traditional" roles as wives and homemakers (the tradwife movement), and so on. Like the "pro-life" people who only care about babies before they're born and after birth have no intention of allowing the government to help the new mother and child, so it is with their concern to raise the national birthrate.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
+1000. They want women (and let's be honest, we're talking about white women here) to have more babies, but they refuse to address any of the actual issues that are leading many young couples to decide not to have kids - childcare costs, homebuying costs and high rents for apartments, education costs, salaries not keeping up with inflation, and so on. Instead they offer tax breaks and other crap that actually does little to help couples with kids long-term.

And of course they know this, which is why they're using more insidious and underhanded ways to try and force women to have kids, like eliminating abortion to the point of making it a punishable crime in many red states, making noises about going after access to birth control, trying to push women to return to "traditional" roles as wives and homemakers (the tradwife movement), and so on. Like the "pro-life" people who only care about babies before they're born and after birth have no intention of allowing the government to help the new mother and child, so it is with their concern to raise the national birthrate.
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I have one about to graduate high school and one that is a freshman in high school. I can't wait until they are done with school and hopefully get a good job. I will still worry about them, but not like I have been ever since they started school. Not only is it full of anxiety to raise a kid today, but it's also expensive. $5000 isn't going to do much when you easily spend $100K a child to raise them from birth to 18.
 
BluHevn said:
I have one about to graduate high school and one that is a freshman in high school. I can't wait until they are done with school and hopefully get a good job. I will still worry about them, but not like I have been ever since they started school. Not only is it full of anxiety to raise a kid today, but it's also expensive. $5000 isn't going to do much when you easily spend $100K a child to raise them from birth to 18.
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Or you spend $100,000 to get them through 4 yrs of UNC
 
Mulberry Heel said:
+1000. They want women (and let's be honest, we're talking about white women here) to have more babies, but they refuse to address any of the actual issues that are leading many young couples to decide not to have kids - childcare costs, homebuying costs and high rents for apartments, education costs, salaries not keeping up with inflation, and so on. Instead they offer tax breaks and other crap that actually does little to help couples with kids long-term.

And of course they know this, which is why they're using more insidious and underhanded ways to try and force women to have kids, like eliminating abortion to the point of making it a punishable crime in many red states, making noises about going after access to birth control, trying to push women to return to "traditional" roles as wives and homemakers (the tradwife movement), and so on. Like the "pro-life" people who only care about babies before they're born and after birth have no intention of allowing the government to help the new mother and child, so it is with their concern to raise the national birthrate.
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The antiabortion crowd is so disingenuous. It's easy to care about a life before it's even born. But once they are born then it's not their problem anymore. Especially of the kid turns out to not be a straight white Christian.
 
BluHevn said:
That's why mine is going to Wake Tech for the first two years.
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I think North Carolina students can take classes at community/technical colleges tuition free while in high school.

It’s possible to graduate from a North Carolina high school with an associate’s degree from a NC Community/Technical college.
 
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I misread the thread title and thought it was, "The $5000 baby boomer bonus may not be enough." And my first thoughts were, "Nu huh, I'm not greedy that would be fine. Is this a one time thing or an annual thing? Is this taxable?"
 
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