My point was that you linked this to the idea of the law encouraging people to obey a commandment of God. That would not work in a secular country.
On tax, you are basically advocating taxing single people three times as much as people with couples with children (or giving couples with children a two-thirds tax cut). Nobody’s going to accept that. You’d have to have what most countries have, which is tax based on income and then pay some benefits to people with children.
Yes, I see the thinking behind a government dating app, but I don’t think it would work in practice. Some things are a natural monopoly, e.g. railways. But dating is something that responds better to the market with multiple providers in competition. This is why there are dating apps and websites that cater for people who have very different priorities and preferences. If you want to date someone on a gluten-free diet, there’s a site for that, if you want to date a police officer, there’s a site for that, if you want to date fat people, there’s a site for that, if you’re a foot fetishist, there’s a site for that, if you want a wife from Russia, there’s a site for that. It’s also not true that they want to keep people single. Serious dating websites work on the basis that people meet their long-term partner and get off the website. Those success stories encourage new customers to sign up on that website. Some dating websites actually give you a refund if you are still single after a certain period of time.
Your urban planning scheme is indirect discrimination, not direct discrimination, but it still sounds like you’d have a hard time persuading anyone it was a good idea. You’re not actually going to put single people in a ghetto, but the demographics of the urban landscape are going to be skewed in dangerous ways. You’ll have an area where there’s the hospital, the school, the library, the swimming pool, the park, the cinema, banks, the post office, shops, places of worships, etc. and presumably also offices where people will work, and this area will be surrounded by three- and four-bedroom detached and semi-detached houses with front and back gardens and off-road parking, and then a mile or two further out you’ll have high-rise blocks of apartments built to house single people. Can you imagine the problems this will cause in terms of roads, traffic, public transport, and who actually uses local businesses and public services? All those single doctors and nurse and teachers will have to live miles away from the hospital and the school, bars and high-end restaurants will go out of business, cinemas will show only family-friendly movies, single people will stop engaging with the community (e.g. going to church, visiting the public library), families and communities will be broken up as grown-up children leave home for the singles housing on the outskirts and newlywed couples are brought in from the outskirts to the family houses in the city centre. It sounds like a town-planner’s nightmare. Communities and businesses thrive on having a few of every kind of household in every neighbourhood.
