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Now that people are waking up to the reality that abortion is not a ‘single issue’ nor is it confined to arguments of morality and religion but rather demographics and entitlements, the next tie-in is to examine causes of abortion decisions.

Abortion decisions fit mostly into four categories based on:

Age - too old, too young
Health - women and fetus, mental, trauma such as rape
Economics - fear of poverty, no family/society support
Political - belief in overpopulation, hatred of humanity

Whether these categories are thought to be legitimate, moral, reasonable and so on is another debate.

What is important to the subject of this thread is the economics category which forms the bulk of abortion decisions.

And the economics basis of an abortion decision is directly related to the high taxation policies of Caucasian cultures.

High taxation has forced mothers out of the home and into the workplace.

Present levels of taxation were present in history only in times of war. Today’s levels existed throughout the 1980s and 1990s when the nation was not at war.

Look at a quick sum of US tax levels based on moderate incomes:

Income tax 16%
FICA (both sides) 12.4%
Medicare 2.4%
Embedded product taxes 23%

Typical State taxes:

Sales tax 6%
Property tax 4%

I have not included state income tax or registration taxes.

The total tax load on a moderate income couple is about 60%.
And it is projected to get much worse. Since 1996 the CBO has projected a 85% tax load. The government individuals that collect the data and crunch the numbers know that the projected estimates are accurate and they know personally that it cannot be achieved.

The Federal Reserve creates money from nothing and causes inflation. They have been monitoring inflation to assess the impact of the money creation activity or better known as monetary policy.

Inflation is a tax.

The government and the Federal Reserve (which is not federal in any sense) are experimenting with flooding markets with money (or as they call it liquidity) without causing rampant inflation in food and necessities. They do this because the alternative is to raise taxes.

So from a government point of view:

1. Raise taxes and risk a revolt or a spate of non-compliance
2. Create money and dilute existing value of dollars (inflation tax). For example pay social security recipients in borrowed (created) dollars or pay any government bill in borrowed (created) dollars, created by the Federal Reserve. Write an IOU to the next generation while watching where prices rise.

And prices have risen, especially in housing.

So what we recognize is that our excessive taxation has rendered the American population stressed to the point that many American mothers simply cannot get the comforting assurance needed to bring children into the world.

The result is we have many jobs and too few workers, which many are convinced reflects a great economy. And as people are living longer, we have an aging population.

France’s tax policies are actually more sympathethic although we have been conditioned to think they are highly taxed, the fact is we as Americans are taxed more in total. Our taxes are hidden in many strata and in many categories.

France’s tax policy is sympathetic to families, so much so that the birthrate in France is healthy.

I am not arguing that life in France in great, I am just pointing out to ourselves that we should not criticize them for high taxes when we ourselves have higher taxes in total, and that they are not experiencing an age demographic crisis as we are because their tax policies support familes.

Through major tax reform such as the FairTax (http://www.fairtax.org) we can establish a tax structure that reassures both men and women about having families because they will have a choice to save and a better framework in which to prosper.

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