Several countries have taken significant measures to try to encourage people to have more children and combat falling birth rates, but the U.S. is not one of them. Although the Department of Transportation was recently directed to give precedence to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” earlier this month.

Now Musk, who President Donald Trump tapped to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has vocalized support for tax incentives for mothers.

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    Cool. SO those of us who can’t or won’t breed have to subsidize the ones who do. Fuck that shit.

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      It’s not just the breeders. People are subsidized just for performing the religious ritual known as “marriage”. It’s a handout to the religious and heteronormative that oppresses everybody else. Always has been.

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      Children are the future generation. As much as musk is a shit hole, you’re also a selfish bastard for not wanting to allow children to grow up secure. Do you hate paying for school?

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        You have it backwards. Having children is the single most selfish thing anyone can do. Nobody asks the child if they wanted to be born it’s purely about what the parents want and what they are afraid of missing out on. If you want to have kids, then you can pay for them.

        As far as school, absolutely have no problem paying for education as society as a whole benefits from having well educated citizens.

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          Nobody asks the child if they wanted to be born it’s purely about what the parents want and what they are afraid of missing out on.

          Believe it or not, the majority of people don’t regret being born.

          Who’s gonna take care of you in you senior years if no one has kids? It’s not just for yourself. It’s for the continuation of society