Trump is trying to pay his way into a US baby boom. Experts say it won’t work

I believe $5k is around the average cost (after insurance) to have a baby in the US if you have insurance.

It’ll join the light bulbs up there from the 1st term

And the same people who are likely to vote for whoever his fascist successor ends up being.

In any case this combined with his dismantling of public education will certainly not help.

You'd also have to subsidize childcare. It's crazy expensive.

1500sqft starts to feel cozy with a bunch of teenagers hanging out.

$5000 probably won’t cover the lost salary from missing work, if adequate recovery time is taken to say nothing of the true developmental needs of the infant. Try 2 years of salary, just to get to a point where daycare can take over for some of the time (and you get to pay that too!).

I get that “we need kids to grow the economy” but also, humans are killing the planet and if our population keeps growing, we’re going to just keep on killing it faster.

Give everyone a house. How is this not a thing in the 21st century

hes just copying putin, putin promised equivalent to 16k for 10 children from moms.

Does Trump still think it's the 1950s?

Very likely, yes.

It's just a child, Michael. How much could it cost?

YEA! Thats basically the whole thing

It's not even his idea.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/hillary-clintons-proposal-5000-baby-bond-essentially-already-here/

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s plan to give every newborn a $5,000 bond, money meant to defray college costs when the kids hit 18, continued to draw criticism yesterday from her right-wing rivals.

“It’s a quick way of trying to buy votes, which is irresponsible when it comes to the economic future of the nation,” said New York Conservative Party chief Mike Long, adding that the White House would have to raise taxes to finance the plan.

The bonds would cost about $20 billion a year, based on the 4million American babies born annually, according to Time magazine, which last month proposed a similar plan.

None of the developed countries have a replacement birth rate. Higher quality of life has lead to lower birth rate in all cases.

because that requires the people in charge facing hard truths about their own lifestyles.

Seriously, a one time payment that low won’t cover shit. The climate doesn’t support families to begin with like your comment points out.

Also you can’t ask people to have kids and cut funding to Medicaid & be actively dismantling Department of Education.. It’s counterintuitive to say we support families and then not support families. Oh but here’s some money.

It shouldn't work, it should give the right publicity. 1/8 of yearly daycare cost is you know what? more than 10% of daycare cost and more than zero. It doesn't matter this is small, what matters is that people will subconsciously remember it exists.

Propaganda works like that. Various pieces of the right mechanism will be planted into your brain (yes, even your brain) to work in the right moment, when, despite everything having turned into shit, you'll vaguely remember that there are some programs helping someone, not all other countries are perfect too, terrorists exist and should be fought, even though it's done with wrong methods, and your ruling clan is full of dumb thieves, which is what they want you to think. And at some point this will make you defenseless for a full takeover.

Well, that's what worked with Russia, USA is kinda stronger (not being a stagnating totalitarian state that just stopped breathing helps), but such people improve and perfect their methods too.

They want people who aren't smart enough to realize this having more babies.

I thought Japans idea to subsidize alcohol was really the low point of this "We need more babies but also want to do the least amount possible to help" trend.

Republicans killed a COVID era $3600/year child tax credit, letting it lapse in 2023 back to the 2018 amount of $2000, which was increased from $1000 as a replacement for the $5050 tax exemption parents used to be able to get before the 2017 Trump tax reforms. For a married couple whose combined income was between $75k and $150k, that $5k tax exemption was worth about $1250, so it was a bad trade for them (or anyone making more).

If Republicans were serious about financially incentivizing having children, they'll need to support the kids throughout the entire life cycle: healthcare for pregnant women, including through labor and deliver and post partum, support for families with young children (including parental leave mandates), subsidized daycare, good schools, parks and libraries, and economic stability (including in housing costs).

But they're not, so here we are.

This would come closest to an actual incentive. Babies are not a one time expense.

And The 2K is gone pretty quick purely from adding the baby to your insurance. Boo.

They don't want the middle class breeding, those are the people they want to get rid of. They want rulers and servants. With this, poor people will have more kids for the short term gain because they have to. Parents get money and can feed thmselves for a while. Then the oligarchy gets a influx of child labour they can pay less for and will be indoctrinated from this early age. Those parents will realize having more kids means they can get more income off them and with be incentived to have 12 kids in the factory.

It makes more sense when you realize that money has solved all of Donald Trump's problems in the past. Get a little too handsy with a woman? Pay her off to keep quiet. Have a business partnership or contract you want to get out of? Pay lawyers to harass them in court until they give up.

Heck, he doesn't even need to use his own money most of the time, he can spend out of one of his companies like it's a slush fund then declare bankruptcy, leaving business partners and banks with the bills.

He is now running the government like one of his privately owned companies, and using our money to try and solve his problems. Give them a pittance to go away, and when they don't, you can say "we gave them a chance" before kidnapping them.

It’s an incel mindset.

Maybe sperm donors should also be held accountable because of a still birth. Maybe men who commit incest and rape should be held accountable.

also in this economy? hcol? poor job prospects?

This is exactly the plan. Of course this kind of thing will only ever be meant for white parents.

And it's a start. Make public transportation easier to access. Find public education better. Don't sic CPS on parents that let their children play outside.

It would be gods plan for her do die because she is not worthy /s

The weird thing is that it's not even his money. Literally can print money here and only gives $5k.

That said, I fully expect this to come with so many strings attached that not a single person will get money except for the top 1% and they will mysteriously have hundreds of children.

Cheap labor? Pretty sure that's exactly what they want.

The morlocks, you mean?

There is no plan, just incompetence.