“Social engineering via tax codes is ALWAYS bad and ALWAYS antithetical to freedom. Just slash the tax rates, period, and let people make their own choices about what to do with their own money. Many of them will have more children, but others won’t. That’s called freedom.”
The social engineering was done decades ago with the invention of the Pill, legalization of abortion, and the mainstreaming of women into college and into the workplace. Put another way - children get in the way.
So the question is whether we let this social engineering run its course and DESTROY Western Society, which it’s well on its way to doing - or does the West take REAL steps to address the problem? I doubt you want that outcome - but it WILL happen, probably in a couple of decades in Europe, and then later here.
As to tax cuts, fine - but they won’t do crap for this problem - it simply isn’t the issue.
Also note that cultures that did not and have not participated in this social engineering experiment decades ago (i.e., Islamic countries) do not have the population issues that we are dealing with.
Note that many of us do not regard the current culture of Islamic societies as something we'd like our own societies to resemble. A teeming population is a huge cultural and political burden, and tends to promote ideologies which appeal to frustrated young adults who see no realistic hope of a bright future. The ethnically native populations of Western societies may have low birth rates, but precious few of the children we do have are susceptible to suggestions that blowing themselves up for Allah (or for anything else) would be their best course of action.
The days of endless frontiers of habitable, arable land, providing a bright future for as many fledgling adults as the previous generation could churn out, are long gone and not coming back. And anytime the rate of population growth outpaces the rate of economic growth, big trouble lies ahead.