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  • Lousiana: LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied

    12/23/2008 8:32:29 AM PST · by GOPGuide · 185 replies · 1,887+ views
    NOLA ^ | September 23, 2008 | Mark Waller
    Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. "We're on a train headed to the future and there's a bridge out, " LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. "And nobody wants to talk about it." LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue...