re: Time to get some bitches pregnant.

Why do you care about the general well being of society? Why do you care what other people think? Just worry about yourself.

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both husband and wife are barely making it with both salaries

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Many of today's young couples live beyond their means is my observation. Buying a house too large for two people and buying cars too expensive. I think a lot of that is caused by peer pressure, i.e., trying to keep up with the Joneses so to say.

Incentivizing the lower income will only keep them where they are in the long term. IMO…if you incentivize the middle class, it will “most likely” boost or improve the middle/working class.

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Many of today's young couples live beyond their means is my observation. Buying a house too large for two people and buying cars too expensive. I think a lot of that is caused by peer pressure, i.e., trying to keep up with the Joneses so to say.

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Lots play into it, but this is part of it.

In the 1850s a family of 10 lived in basically a two room cabin. You needed alot children to work the farm, etc.

Now 2 people live in a 6 room house with 2 bedrooms and travel the world and say it's too expensive to have children.

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Oddly enough it's expensive unless you are poor.

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Stop incentivizing the ghetto from mass reproducing. Those people treat it as a game.

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When you actually have to pay for and feed your own it’s not so easy

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Eh, lots of things have changed as far as what kids "need".

Food - most have way more than they need and families spend 3 to 4 times as much eating out.

Clothes - most get way more than they need, are more expensive than they need to be, I had hand me downs growing up

Toys - definitely way more than they need

College - over pursued and over valued in alot of cases

Vacations - are much more extravagant than they used to be... we went camping alot

I could go on.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with the way people choose to live and raise their kids... but it's not just cause it's so much more expensive these days.

I have two kids and they aren't that expensive. But alot of that is because the way we live.

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Oddly enough it's expensive unless you are poor.

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Read something on The Chive yesterday and the gallery theme was “What felt like luxuries when growing up poor” and one was school lunches. Said how her parents couldn’t afford to pay for school lunches so they had homemade lunches that were nothing more than white bread, bologna, and some crackers.

Then the mom lost her job and they qualified for school lunches and then they ate like kings in her childhood eyes.

That one hit me like a ton of bricks.

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Many of today's young couples live beyond their means is my observation. Buying a house too large for two people and buying cars too expensive. I think a lot of that is caused by peer pressure, i.e., trying to keep up with the Joneses so to say.

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Yup because they think that’s what you’re supposed to do. Too busy trying to keep up with the life they think they’re supposed to have instead of the life that is necessary