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I bet it will have the opposite effect.

He "could" TOTALLY pay his way into a baby boom.

Step 1: Tax the rich. Lower the pressure on the lower and middle classes.

Step 2: Fix housing pricing so that a single hard-working person can afford a house, a car, and two kids without their partner having to work.

Step 3: Put some guardrails in place to stop the 2-3 companies that are buying up everything. Give medium and small business a chance to thrive without needing to be purchased by a giant company.

Step 4. Fix healthcare so that the family above gets 100% coverage for whatever happens. Pay for it with Step 1.

Just birthing the damn thing is like $50,000. He can shove the $5,000 right up his ass and I hope he gets paper cuts up there too.

This is how you get Idiocracy. The people that would take advantage of this would be the people you don't want to over-breed.

Wow, look at that! The price of strollers just went up 5k!

Replace strollers with basically anything related to birth or infants. 5k more to spend? 5k more to earn by big business selling wares.

This assumes the hospital doesn't determine that you seem to owe 5k more for that one out of network service provider they slipped in while you were distracted during birthing.

$5000???

Hahahahaha

Give me a house. Anything short of 1500 sqft, 3br, 1.5ba, on a half acre or more is just not enough for my gf and I to even consider.

And we are both gainfully employed.

If $5000 is a lot to you, he's really not interested in there being more of "your type" of person.

$5000? Does Trump still think it's the 1950s?

He’s making everything more expensive, gutting medicade to nothing (50% of babies are born on medicade), taking away food stamps, getting rid of the department of education, gutting hud, gutting head start, getting rid of free lunches in schools, sending us into a Great Depression, stripping worker protections and removing any hope for a future….but yeah 5k sure that will cover your first 15 minutes of delivery. What a joke this man is

Give me one year paid family leave and Medicare for all, then we'll talk.

My wife and I would consider another kid if the fed wanted to kick us an extra $25k per year.

A one time fee of $5K is hilarious. You'd maybe be able to cover the hospital bill from having the kid with that sum.

Lmaooo no shit it won't work. Daycare alone is $20-$40k a year. A pittance one-time payment doesn't change the fundamental calculus of how fucking expensive everything is now

Other countries have tried this, and it was a spectacular failure

His arrogance means that he's incapable of learning from others though, so good fucking luck

I thought Republicans were against giving people handouts?

Why can't countries understand quality of life leads to more of those productive babies they really want

They're pretending to offer incentives while their actual policies are why birth rates are declining.

5k won't even cover the hospital costs for the birth. Let alone the child care, continuing to insure that child, food, housing, child care because both parents need to work, education which they've been staying refunding for decades...

Literally cost us $11k in medical bills to have a baby. That doesn't include the cost of actually maintaining it either. $5k is a JOKE

Or they could just forgive the student loans haha, they are so stupid.

I'm not American. I thought "$5k/month for sure". Lol.

"What could raising a child cost? $5000?"

"You've never actually raised a child, have you?"

At least offer free healthcare and child birth, that’s $30,000 out of pocket if you’re middle class.

anyone else think this shit is fucking weird?

$5k a month, right? Right?

$5k is roughly 1/4 the cost...

... of a birth.

Alone. Just, average medical costs of a birth, without insurance.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby/

https://www.uwhealth.org/news/how-much-does-it-really-cost-have-baby

... And they are slashing Medicaid.

If you do have insurance... $5k is about half the cost of a birth.

So... congrats, you can have two kids, and then uh lol have fun paying the cost of raising two kids, which is about half a million dollars.

And that's just to 18, btw, this assumes those kids can find a job immediately after high school and move out into a place they can afford on an entry level income.

Which uh, is basically wildly unrealistic at this point.

Because all entry level jobs require 2-3 years of experience.

And housing costs are insane.

Why do I have a feeling the administration would still try to find ways to not pay nonwhite families having kids?

Trump was propped up by people who believe this bogus "Great Replacement" theory and I don't think they would be willing to back down from that stance on account of a generally declining population.

Guillotine time