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Originally posted by taxwonk
What you're talking about is the negative income tax Milton Friedman first came up with and Nixon adopted. It's one of the smartest ideas the man ever had.
It didn't pay people not to have babies; it just didn't provide a system that paid more to a mother who had more children. If you truly want to provide an economic incentive for putting children up for adoption, which is really nothing more than trafficking in children, why not just let the mothers put them up for auction on Ebay, and charge a withholding tax on the proceeds?
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The stipend for not having children would be have to be considerably higher than the one for putting them for adoption.
