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.
And the budget cuts to compensate for the initial drop in tax revenue from slashed rates need to hit the generation that’s responsible for this mess, namely those now hitting retirement age, who presided over a massive expansion of socialist welfare programs because they wanted hand-outs for themselves.
“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.