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How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?
Paying desperate people to produce corpo slaves is the furthest thing from socialism.
I was being a bit facetious, but yeah. It’s a pretty transparent ploy to get the birth rate up for as little money as possible. God forbid line doesn’t go up always and forever, for all eternity.
you clearly haven’t met many tankies
Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn’t care
Guess, in no particular order, could be all these or none of these:
Someone told him about runaway population decline now being taken seriously in SK and Japan, we’re not quite in the unrecoverable zone yet. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250404-south-korea-is-over
5000/child is enough to get a rural wageslave to bolster their numbers and create the next generation of right-wing voters, but not enough to get left-wing educated people who can make reasonable guesses 9 months into the future.
5000 per child is cheap and it’s enough to gain him popularity where he’s just starting to weaken.
Evangelicals are a big part of his base and hate that there aren’t more children in their sunday schools.
The Nazis did it
Child bennefits are pretty common. “Nazi’s breathed air” etc…
I feel like that’s more than $5k in the picture if they’re all $20 bills.
Yeah, I counted at least 50 stacks of $20 bills. Usually those stacks are 100 bills each, so over $100k in that pic.
Those stacks aren’t 100 dollars each that’s for sure… More like 1000… I count at least 47 stacks… So let’s round to 50…
Yeah that’s 50k, which is definitely more than 5k
50k, […] is definitely more than 5k
Source?
Look at the picture and count
Seems like fake news. Do you have any studies backing it up? 50k > 5k definitely doesn’t sound right.
$5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that “nobody wants to work” because they’re still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago…
That roughly the total on what was saved with doge.
I get your ribbing. But it’s sad if people think they saved anything.
They literally mathematically added way more debt and cut gap.
Yeah we don’t need govt workers…who contribute to tax base. Nah…
That looks more like 50k, 5k can easily go in pants pockets.
What are the odds this is just Clinton’s $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?
Except this time there’s no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.
So weird. These are the same imbiciles complaining about welfare babies.
They sure do act like it’s the 1930s alright…
This is such a classic fascist play, get your bingo cards out ladies
So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they’re totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?
So they’re stupid?
You just now noticed they’re complete idiots? :D
“White babies only please” —Cheetolini
I know you were half joking but for everyone else here complaining that 5k ain’t shit (I agree, it’s not), it’s because the incentive is not for you. It’s for rich people (read: rich white people, since poverty disproportionately affects non-white people).
5k might not mean shit to you in trying to raise a child but for someone who already has the means to have/raise a kid, it’s actually bonus money. That’s the incentive.
They are rich, why would they have a kid over snack food money?
Supposedly they’ve done the cost benefit analysis, so this wouldn’t even appeal to them, less so even…
The government giving people stuff they didn’t earn? Sounds kind of progressive. Is that really the image pure fucking evil vile narcissistic scum really want?
Clinton Floats $5,000 Baby Bond
~ September 28, 2007
It’s nice to know these two are still in touch.
Totally original idea
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/nx-s1-5077776/kamala-harris-child-tax-credit-housing
put into an index fund over the last seventeen years, that $5k is now $30k. it was not a terrible idea.
Of all the people who are so strapped they could receive $5k and not immediately blow it on visa bills and rent, parents aren’t even close to the list. $5k into investments? Most of them are either flirting with bankruptcy or engaging in some heavy petting in a corner booth.
Don’t judge me. I got kids to feed.
It’s really gonna help to pay for diapers in an index fund.
In Bill Clinton’s defense it was intended for the child, not the parent.
From the article: “I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time,” said Clinton, “so when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to put that down payment on their first home, or go into business.”
Personally I think the policy is a good idea, especially since it doesn’t encourage unwanted children from a short-term desire for cash. It would be great along with medicare for all, free tuition, a livable minimum wage, government housing for all, UBI…
Not on its face, no. I think it’s still a band-aid attached to a bigger problem of generational inequality. Public housing, education, and a large competitive public hiring sector would have gone much farther in rectifying poverty in the US.
But the extra insulting aspect of “Baby Bonds” is that they’re an idea dangled over a public hungry for economic reforms which never actually gets delivered. When liberals lose, they get to nag centrists and insist “We had all these good ideas but you were too racist and stupid to accept them”. When they win, we get an earful about how the federal courts, the super-majority Senate, the prior administration’s mid-level bureaucrats, the state legislatures, and two dozen of DC’s biggest lobbying firms all have to agree to go along with it or the reforms can’t pass.
Seems like Republicans are getting in on the same act, now that kitchen table liberalism is experiencing a popular resurgence.
They chose to use a stock photo of a million dollars.
$5000 is only 2 and a half of those bundles of $20’s.
These people are trying to run propaganda for Trump, they can’t even keep their fascist bullshit straight.
I worked both Brinks type security and for Chase, so the inside and outside. That’s not a million. It’s probably somewhere between a quarter and a half, but the picture doesn’t make it super easy to tell.
Your point is very valid however, they used a deceiving picture on purpose.
Yeah looks about right with the hundred stacks in there. I’m not putting a ton of effort in here, but eyeballing it looks about like what I’d expect.
Was gonna say actually you’re probably right because it was probably a couple of suitcases and then the 300 K backpack
Cheers for low effort irrelevant curiosities
Lol so even if they were $1 bills that wouldn’t be an accurate pic hahaha
Is that a million? They’re 20 dollar bills in packs of what looks like it might be 100, so $2000 per pack. There’s about 50 of those, so $100.000 in total. Maybe I underestimated the pack size and number of packs and it’s actually $400.000, but I think it’s unlikely to be a million. (I still agree with the rest of your comment of course)
but when you look through maga glasses, that’s what you see when a black single mom of 2 receives a wic voucher for a couple gallons of milk.
You see, its not one black mom, its the millions of moms getting subsidies!
Lets ignore the part where we somewhy have a million moms needing subsidies.
Thank you! Maddening!
