Given that the current choice is between about $250 for an abortion and hundreds of thousands in various welfare payments and other taxpayer subsidies, um, yes, this is a fiscally conservative position. Have you really thought through what it costs the taxpayers to support the child (often brain-damaged in utero and very premature due to substance abuse) of a non-working, unemployable mother? Public housing, public schooling (including the entitlement to very expensive special ed services), food stamps, Medicaid, and all too often multiple rounds of incarceration and substance rehab programs starting when the child reaches its teens. A fair estimate of the average cost would be $500,000 per child.
That’s a sick attitude.
You know, an even more fiscally conservative idea would be to bring back slavery for all low level government positions. Think of the money we would save by paying them just room and board!
Here is another fiscally conservative idea: how about "aborting" our seniors when they hit 70 years of age? I am thinking we could do that for a cost of about $250 each. Good deal, huh?
Don’t forget that ‘fewer people’ makes for less ‘global warming’ too!!! /BHPS (biggest humanly possible SARCASM)
Can you imagine the government actually offering complete sterilizations to those who come in for abortions? At $250 a pop, another $50-75 could initially save $175-200+ a head.
Think of how much money we’d save doing that; career welfare recipients relying on “government” ought understand and expect “government” to make their burden as easy as possible to bear.
Hey, if they want ME to pay to kill their kid, they won’t mind me paying to stop them ever requesting this procedure again.
Life has consequences.
“Given that the current choice is between about $250 for an abortion and hundreds of thousands in various welfare payments and other taxpayer subsidies, um, yes, this is a fiscally conservative position. Have you really thought through what it costs the taxpayers to support the child (often brain-damaged in utero and very premature due to substance abuse) of a non-working, unemployable mother? Public housing, public schooling (including the entitlement to very expensive special ed services), food stamps, Medicaid, and all too often multiple rounds of incarceration and substance rehab programs starting when the child reaches its teens. A fair estimate of the average cost would be $500,000 per child.”
We could also save billions by eliminating Medicare and Medicaid. When elderly people get sick, just let ‘em die.
Sorry, but fiscal conservatism must have a grouding in morality, IMO.