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    5000$ is a lot. In Germany you get only 250€

    well, that's

    per month until they’re 27 (as long as they’re still in school/university)
    plus free healthcare for mother and child
    plus free daycare (depending on the state)
    plus free schools and universities

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      To add on, seems like the 5k (USD) is a one-time lump sum. Your price quote from Germany is already 3k (EUR) after a year. It only every outscales the 5k.

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    Daycare cost $2k a month

    Is that for real? That’s more than (many) private schools in Europe.

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    Wages have not kept up with productivity and GDP increases since the 1970s.

    How about making single income middle class families possible again, so you can have one stay at home parent.

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    They’ll need a population boost after Trump deny’s immigrants entrance into America.

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    It won’t even cover the cost of giving birth. This is some real “how much could a banana cost” energy.

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      Also, the cost of giving birth will magically jump up by $5,000 as soon as this passes. It was never a function of how much it cost to actually provide that service.

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    $5k in a Roth IRA in the sp500 at birth is the only way that it is worth anything.

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    monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

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    Having a kid will cost you much more than 100grand. Giving you 5k to fuck is such an insult.

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    The type of person who would think 5k for having a kid is a great deal is exactly the type of person conservatives would bitch about having kids and leeching all the other government resources.

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      Coincidentally, it’s also the exact type of person conservatives want having kids. They make up the majority of prison labor, military fodder, and wage slaves.

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    They just cut head start, slashed medicade(51% of us babies are born on this program), no medicade no pediatric care for your baby either, cut hud, slashed the department of education, blocked student loan forgiveness, are dismantling the aca preventative care mandate, gutting worker protections, canceling child labor laws, laid off 275,000 workers and destroyed their livelihood and tanked the economy ……yea the birth rate is going to plummet. 5k lol doesn’t even cover a fraction of the utter devastation coming to American families from these moronic policies. Who in their right mind would want to bring a child into this racist sexist tech bro oligarchy?

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    It really is a bummer to have such a legitimately retarded man just riding this country into the earths crust all Slim Pickens style.

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        To be fair that is the kind of place where the argument “move somewhere cheaper then if your income doesn’t match the cost of living” does have some merit. Oh, and fuck the employers who pay wages below the cost of living in their area.