Culture of Death Population Projections

[brycelaliberte]

There are all sorts of incentives that governments could take to help increase fertility rates. The tax code should favor marriage and there should be substantial increases in the dependent exemption. Society ought to encourage earlier, not later, marriage.

Not only earlier marriages, but actual, committed marriages.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The point is that we seem to be stuck in the 1970’s thinking about the “population bomb” popularized by Paul Ehrlich. The bomb was a dud. Fertility rates are declining, a trend which if continued will lead to an inevitable demographic winter.

This trend is, in my view, far more threatening to world societies than most things currently being talked about including environmentalism and global warming. If there are no people, we won’t have to worry about either of those.

There are all sorts of incentives that governments could take to help increase fertility rates. The tax code should favor marriage and there should be substantial increases in the dependent exemption. Society ought to encourage earlier, not later, marriage.

“Demographic Winter”. Excellent expression of what we are likely facing if fertility rates do not increase in the first world.

Earlier marriage would indeed help. A 20 year old woman is much more fertile than a 30 year old. We have, however, constructed a societal pattern that discourages pregnancy of 20 year old women in all kinds of ways.

 

[goofyjim]

The point is that we seem to be stuck in the 1970’s thinking about the “population bomb” popularized by Paul Ehrlich. The bomb was a dud. Fertility rates are declining, a trend which if continued will lead to an inevitable demographic winter.

This trend is, in my view, far more threatening to world societies than most things currently being talked about including environmentalism and global warming. If there are no people, we won’t have to worry about either of those.

There are all sorts of incentives that governments could take to help increase fertility rates. The tax code should favor marriage and there should be substantial increases in the dependent exemption. Society ought to encourage earlier, not later, marriage.

As I have stated before the dependent exemption should be no more than the personal exemption amount for any individual. Otherwise the single person ends up paying a higher proportion of his income in taxes. That is an unfair tax code.

 

[buffalo]

Pro Life Expectancy - a look at the actual actuarials

 

[Lost_Found]

Thank you for the good ideas and brainstorming & info. I’m finally contented with it all. I thought over the advice and I will now build on the premise that people are chaste until proven otherwise. That means they’re doing whatever they should if they are to “be fruitful and multiply” and they’re following God’s will and if they’re not having babies don’t blame ‘em. I’m not looking at the big picture any more, just doing my little part and letting everyone else do theirs. So I’ll just keep smilin’ at the babies at the grocery store, honour Jesus’s mother, keep living my own life as is and leave it at that. I’ll let God be God. He seemed a little peeved when they’d take a census in the Old Testament, so now I learned my lesson.

 

[Lost_Found]

As I have stated before the dependent exemption should be no more than the personal exemption amount for any individual. Otherwise the single person ends up paying a higher proportion of his income in taxes. That is an unfair tax code.

alright, alright - if that’s a major stumblin’ block for you we PROMISE not to call-in the idea to the tax dept.