Posted on 09/15/2006 6:26:23 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
"Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Health Protection, Nikolai Gerasimenko, suggested the introduction of childlessness tax to improve the demographic situation in Russia.
“It is about time we should think about childlessness tax. If you do not want to think about your social duty for your fatherland than you will have to pay for it,” Gerasimenko said. The official added that State Duma deputies were currently considering the issue about the introduction of such a tax in Russia. As soon as deputies think the idea through, the law-makers will develop an adequate document on the matter. "
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Thanks for the straw man.
And punishing people who don't have children is silly - not only are some people physically unable to have children, but telling selfish people that they will be punished for not having children will result in a poisonous environment for the children that result.
Far better than punishments would be incentives to encourage people to have children and to encourage families with children to have even more children.
This is absurd and obscene.
Russian population growth rate has been so low for so long, a crisis.
Huge scandal that the government hasn't done much more to encourage children. Whatever is done now is long overdue.
lotsa 1/2 Russian kids being born in the US though...small comfort for Putin....
Meanwhile thousands of Russian children languish in poor orphanages, waiting for foreigners to adopt them. Place the kids in the childless families.
Better the govt stop providing free abortions and start paying women to have and keep their kids.
I think many Russian woman choose to have multiple abortions rather than bear children with alcoholic men and live in tiny decrepit houses while working to support the entire family. At least that is what I observed in a remote area of Russia.
Not to mention the horrible state neglect of 600,000 children abandoned by parents or taken from alcoholics to be raised like wolves in stark institutions. Been there, seen them.
No? Well then what has Bush said about the situation? I do know that former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan said the answer to anticipated labor shortages was to open up more immigration. Many leaders in western democracies have adressed the problem of low birthrates -- why hasn't Bush? I'm left with the impression that his solution is just to fill the gaps with Mexican people who still believe in traditional families.
As for the morality of taxing single people more I'd suggest people look at the US tax system which does this very thing and was instituted for the reasons that the Russian leaders are suggesting. Our leaders wanted to reward families who sacrifice to bring up the next generation of Americans. It's the one thing I like about our tax system.
Look at all the websites of beautiful Russian women looking for American husbands. Ever see one for beautiful American women seeking Russian husbands? Pretty telling don't you think?
Couple To Face Murder ChargesBATAVIA -- Foster parents accused of leaving a developmentally disabled 3-year-old bound up in a closet for two days where he died were indicted Wednesday by a Clermont County grand jury with murder, more serious counts than they had faced previously....
Authorities have said the Carrolls took in the special needs child to reap the payments for his foster care....
...and should be met with utter condom-nation.
That's another reason we need to switch to the FairTax, to eliminate this sort of pernicious totalitarianism.
Sorry, but that cure is worse than the ill.
Shake of that totalitarian tendancy Ivan.
As to your points regarding Bush...pure hyperbole. I do not agree with his actions as regards the border, but that does not mean I am going to ascribe them to whatever my pet peave is at the time.
freeriders
Whoever proposed this should be thrown in a rubber room.
My niece and her husband adopted a boy when he was 10 from one of those institutions. He's won't tell them what he went through, but only says he never wants to go back to Russia again.
There is actually a marriage penalty, which is sometimes reversed by having enough dependents.
That's not much of an incentive.
Strange, Russia and the rest of Europe is Christian, the Bible promotes having large families, and the only Christians I know of who still hold to Bible teachings on this matter are Amish, Mormons, some very conservative Catholics and some fragments of fundamentalist Christians.
NARAL, the ACLU and NOW are not the ones who should be blamed for the current demographic crisis in the west, it's the so-called leaders of Christianity who have sold out to humanistic goals and prefer not offending the people who make the huge houses of worship possible -- who might take offense if you gave a sermon against birth control or even divorce.
NOW! ALL YOU FREEPERS:
Out with the contraceptives.Get back in bed!
And DO YOUR DUTY!
Get busy! Time's a wasting. Next year, I want every one of you to have a little Freeper to show for your efforts! All right.
ON YOUR MARK!GET SET!
GO!
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