[Un Canadien Errant]

Doesn't this article have the Brave New World feel that lefties love. Talking about "the trade-offs between child quantity and quality" makes children seem more like goods rather than gifts from God.

[Olydawg]

Two Is Enough Why large families don't deserve tax breaks.

... unless of course they are on wellfare then I'm sure this douche is all for giving them more and more.

[baseballfanjm]

Hmmm, I'm the second of six kids. I guess that means my younger siblings are all destined to fail in life.

[Teacher317]

Further promoting the worldwide trend of modern nations depopulating themselves (birthrates well below 2.0), and further enabling the continuing invasion of third-world populations to increase their political power. Hopefully sometime soon we can ALL be like Africa or Southeast Asia! Woo-hoo!

[Melinator]

The reasons that additional siblings hamper the intellectual growth of children (and particularly middle-borns) are fairly obvious—parental resources are a fixed pie, and children do better when they get more attention (and money).

Same old misdirection. Taxed into penury at all levels of Government, most middle income families cannot afford to give the best of all worlds to more than one or two children. This author's conclusion: have less children.

The Gov't and it's neo-communist limpets will have their thieving hands held out, palms up, when it comes time to force those same children to pay into the "scheme", but heaven forbid they should have to spend some of the money on "tax incentives? (paging George Orwell) on "extra" children. They GUMBINT need that money for booze, drugs, prostitutes, bailing out foreign and domestic "friends", foreign and domestic Wars, parties, travel, welfare state causes - you name it, it's more important than some slave's children.

The fact that the author of this piece does not even touch upon the obscene tax and "service" rates in the U.S. and the obvious affect they have on the ability of U.S. families to raise children, shows extreme incompetence, or deliberate misdirection.

Is it too strong to say I HATE the BASTARDS? Forgive me.

[cupcakes]

I'm sure the leftists only believe in this type of thing as long as actual taxpayers are involved. I'm sure they will fight tooth and nail to keep things like the EITC and child tax credits alive and well among their constituents of welfare mothers and low income single parents.

[goldstategop]

Liberals are all for *choice* except when a husband and wife decide they want a large family.

[krb]

Child tax credits, child-care tax deductions, and family leave policies all reward parents with big broods

Actually, it rewards parents who work and pay taxes to have more kids. That's not so bad.

It's the other part of government that rewards parents who don't get married and still have more kids that worries me.

[DoctorMichael]

Let's keep the native population low so they can be replaced by other races.

[Ditto]

Only a complete financial idiot would think the government tax break on dependents is somehow a good deal.