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America’s declining birth rate is a much bigger risk to our future than, say, climate change, yet most politicians are afraid to talk about it. It’s now, it seems, taboo.
The entire Democratic Party and all its media allies have spent the past week denigrating vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance as a “kook” because he dared to propose policies that would encourage family formation.
Some will agree with his proposals, others will disagree. Some will favour mass immigration or Hungarian-style child allowances. We should welcome a robust debate about how to tackle the birth rate crisis, not turn our noses up at it.
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Here are the facts: Our nation’s birth rate has now fallen to 1.62 children per woman, the lowest in history and well below replacement rate.
It’s not that people don’t want children either: in fact, American women, on average, are having fewer children than they would like to have.
America’s “aging” means that older people will make up a larger percentage of the U.S. population and overburden the health care system.
Experts say U.S. births will fall sharply in 2023, putting an end to the late-pandemic recovery
This has already translated into higher taxes for everyone. When Social Security first began, there were more than 40 workers for every retiree receiving benefits. Today, there are about three workers for every retiree. By 2060, that number will fall to two. This is largely due to longer life spans, but declining birth rates are certainly a factor.
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An ageing workforce also means lower entrepreneurship rates and slower economic growth: every 10% increase in the proportion of the population aged 60 and over is estimated to result in a 5.7% decline in GDP per capita.
Falling birth rates are a symptom of a deeper economic downturn. Thankfully, we know the solution: Drill, drill, frack, frack. Because when energy is cheap, everything is cheap.
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We will cut the oppressive regulatory state and make it easier to create family-sustaining jobs. We will repeal pointless occupational licensing laws so talented workers can use their God-given talents in their chosen professions, rather than being squeezed out by anti-competitive cartels.
reforming zoning and other restrictions on new housing; Monthly mortgage costs Rents have nearly doubled since January 2020, with more than 22 million households spending more than a third of their income on rent in 2022. Increasing housing supply will bring down costs. That’s basic economics.
But this is not just an economic issue: if it were, rich countries would have higher birth rates, but in fact the opposite is true: the fertility crisis is a symptom of a deeper crisis.
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If you subscribe to false religions like wokeism or climateism, or if you believe your children don’t have the same chance of achieving the American Dream as you did, you’re less likely to achieve it and less likely to be productive yourself.
If we fix our economy and solve our national crisis, we can solve our birth rate crisis, but we don’t have much time to do that.
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