Reply #105: Tax breaks aren't an encouragement to breed.

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Forgive me if I'm being too serious while you are being cynical...

Anyone who is smart enough to know about tax breaks, knows that babies cost a lot of money, and work, to raise.

If you want to know an effective way to breed more cannon fodder: Abstinence-only education of our teenagers is a good way to raise the teen pregnancy rate. Teenage mothers will have a hard time raising her children, and will most likely not be able to send them to college.

Post edit: I wanted to post an article that shows the teen pregnancy rates and teen abortion rates of western industrialized countries. I believe it's guttmacher institute, but I couldn't find it on Google tonight. The article cites that USA teenagers and Russian teenagers have similarly, very high, rates of teen pregnancy. USA has THE HIGHEST number of teenage births of all western industrialized nations per capita. Russian teenagers just get more abortions. The rest of Europe has really low teen pregnancy rates, compared to Russia. The US is just an anomaly of high teenage childbearing.