Tax Credit for not having kids: why doesn't this exhist?

While we are at it, I say for those of us who don't have medical expenses and don't have something to donate to charity should get tax breaks too.

disappointed that people keep talking about economic downturn like it's worse than the existential threat of climate change. if that is you, recognize that you are in a position of privilege where you get to think about your Apple stock instead of whether your Pakistani village is going to flood.

I have thought about this a lot, how we should be incentivizing not having children if we're serious about climate change. one study I read out of Oklahoma State a long time ago said having another child increases your carbon footprint x 20 (based on that life has been increasingly carbon-reliant). the only legitimate argument against it I have come up with is that it's possible that when we have more children we're more likely to have more technological innovation that can stave off climate change (e.g. more people working on carbon capture, cleaner energy, better construction, a genius who comes up with an amazing invention, etc.)

I don’t know how anyone looks at this planet and says, “I think we need more people.”

Where does it end? 100 billion people? 100 trillion people? There is only so much living space, arable land and fresh water to go around.

There were already several legitimate arguments made when you posted this.

Why would you get a tax credit for literally contributing nothing? The point of life is to procreate

Keep going. You’re so close to finding out that in a few rounds your population will level off. The mistake you made was creating an artificial system with no children or elderly in existence. Once it reaches equilibrium though…

Life expectancy doubled over the past 200 years. It rose by 10 years over the past 50. It is expected to be nearly eternal in 100 years.

Extinction?

Absurd alarmist much?

My guy here wants a tax break for being unable to get laid.

The quiet part being: you want a tax credit for incels.

Sluggish economic growth is irrelevant. For quality of living concerns, what matters is GDP per capita, not total GDP.

And as far as "good environmental news", where is this "good environmental news?" With close to 8 billion people on the planet, no population is ever enough for the population explosion zealots.

Looks like we posted the same thing less than one minute apart.

Well, yeah. I mean, if by "it is expected" you mean "it is expected by fools."

Libs: we have a carbon crisis! Lets issue tax credits for EVs

Jamb innn: why don't we address the root cause and produce less people

Libs: oh wait not like that...

It's comparable to "cancelling" student loan debt. You didn't solve to root cause (greedy unis that the gov't enabled in the first place), you just cleared the deck to begin the next debt cycle.

We will be at negative population growth within 20 years. You can either take one for the team, or enjoy the wonders of the third-world.

Funny how BOTH political parties will be handing out iPhones to everyone who wants to cross the border.

Y = A f(K,L)

Y is economic output (GDP)

A is total factor productivity

K is physical capital (e.g. infrastructure, machinery)

L is labor

The political and economic system is irrelevant. You can grow an economy by increasing productivity, or by increasing physical capital and/or the endowment of labor. An example of labor endowment increasing was when women entered the workforce in larger numbers.

Tax credits to incentivize a lack of kids means the government would be incentivizing a future decline in economic output - unless that labor endowment were replaced with immigration.

Truth.

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It would be hard to imagine how you could be more out of touch with reality.

Here, since you seem to have missed it: Libs, in general, are in favor of slowing down population growth and even bringing down the planet's population in a gradual, non-catastophic way. It is Conservatives who are, by and large, in favor of endless population growth and argue constantly against the notion that there might be too many people or that we could ever have too many people.

Perhaps this could be a learning moment for you. When you ascribe beliefs/positions that are the exact opposite of those that people actually hold, based upon nothing more than your apparent hatred for "the libs" perhaps it is time to slow down, drop the hatred, and begin the long journey back into the real world.

And again, (it seems you missed it), it is not total economic output that matters with regards to the economic well-being of people. It is the economic output per capita that matters. Understanding this simple concept makes your entire post irrelevant.