‘We can count on greatly increasing the birth rate of native Americans’
We can make it happen: “an increase in the tax value of the personal exemption of 50 dollars will increase the general fertility rate by 6 to 12 births per 1000 women [from a base of 95.5]” - Whittington, Leslie & Alm, James & Peters, H.. (1990). Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Implicit Pronatalist Policy in the United States. The American economic review. 80. 545-56. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11733793_Fertility_and_the_Personal_Exemption_Implicit_Pronatalist_Policy_in_the_United_States)
‘or we can accept some growth via immigration and have some confidence in the strength of our principles.’
We’ve added over 50 million people via immigration in the past few decades; let’s see the strength of our principles assimilate them before we bring in more.
Our birth rate has dropped from 15.6 per 1K when that paper was published to 12 per 1K today.
What's going to change our behavior?
We’ve added over 50 million people via immigration in the past few decades; let’s see the strength of our principles assimilate them before we bring in more.
Where would our economy and standard of living be if we had 50M fewer consumers/workers?