Thread: Birth rate poses looming economic cloud (Mexican immigrants 'propping us up')

That creates a lot of problems when you have a major entitlement state like we do.

So we need large population to continue the socialist state.

“The future is banking on there being people to populate it,” said Regnerus. “Young-to-middle-age adults are economic drivers, creators, and frankly they pay the bill for the promises we’ve made to our senior citizens and the poorest among us. The more we promise, and the longer we live, the larger labor force we need, or else the higher taxes need to be raised.”

Once again this is simply wrong, the current youth cannot will not pay the bills why because the middle class is being eliminated current seniors are providing for their children and grandchildren. The idea larger population create growth is simply false what does work is a value, moral, capitalist society free to do business, that alone creates growth. According to this article India should be in a boom era.

Westerners tend to believe these days in smaller families then 5+. But still many would have more then 1-2 kids IF the economy was fixed properly with providing stable and solid paying jobs, costs of kids went down for working taxpaying Americans (majorly healthcare and education costs), and had the government out of their lives on how to raise their kids. Its just to stressful in today's screwed up US to raise very many kids unless your a burden on the taxpayers and don't give a damn about the kids.

I'd love to have about 4 kids myself but I won't while in the US just for those reasons.