8trackdisco
5 years ago
This thread over four years could get a few posts. Here’s a gem.

“Baby Bonds.”

First proposed in NJ by their governor last year, $1000 gets deposited per child. Families making less than 133k per year qualifies.

$1000
Bond rate at 1.35%
$1,270 after 18 years.

Yes, great idea, because there should be financial inducements to have children. Especially if you are poor, as having children is inexpensive.

80 million dollars a year cost to the NJ budget.

Original article below, and heard on the Marketplace podcast last night.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nj-governor-proposes-dollar1000-baby-bond-for-children-to-close-wealth-gap/ar-BB18oBRG  for this gem to go nationwide.



Jsnyder147
5 years ago
Marketplace with Kia Ryssdal? I listen to it every day at 6:30.. gotta love NPR.
deadeyedick
5 years ago
I seem to remember Cash for Clunkers. Paying people for retiring old cars that they would do on their own without the Feds involvement.
bgz
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5 years ago

This thread over four years could get a few posts. Here’s a gem.

“Baby Bonds.”

First proposed in NJ by their governor last year, $1000 gets deposited per child. Families making less than 133k per year qualifies.

$1000
Bond rate at 1.35%
$1,270 after 18 years.

Yes, great idea, because there should be financial inducements to have children. Especially if you are poor, as having children is inexpensive.

80 million dollars a year cost to the NJ budget.

Original article below, and heard on the Marketplace podcast last night.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nj-governor-proposes-dollar1000-baby-bond-for-children-to-close-wealth-gap/ar-BB18oBRG  for this gem to go nationwide.

8trackdisco wrote:



They were just trying to build loyal voters... argument for why dems and cons should trade positions on abortion.
MACS
5 years ago
Wrong forum noob. 🌫

Somebody hadda say it...
JadeRose
5 years ago
Gaddam noobs.
teedubbya
5 years ago
Sigh. Nudes.
opelmanta1900
5 years ago



Yes, great idea, because there should be financial inducements to have children. Especially if you are poor, as having children is inexpensive.




8trackdisco wrote:


We literally already have this on a federal level... it's a tax rebate, it's usually $2k/ child, and anyone dumb enough to think this entices people into having more kids should have a hole drilled in their head to drain the stupid...
8trackdisco
5 years ago

Wrong forum noob. 🌫

Somebody hadda say it...

MACS wrote:


Chit... you’re right.
delta1
5 years ago
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#-o

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BuckyB93
5 years ago

We literally already have this on a federal level... it's a tax rebate, it's usually $2k/ child, and anyone dumb enough to think this entices people into having more kids should have a hole drilled in their head to drain the stupid...

opelmanta1900 wrote:



This isn't meant to target the population of responsible adults, it's targeting those who pump out kids to keep the welfare money flowing in. These people have no intent on supporting their kids, that's what the government and welfare is for.
teedubbya
5 years ago
I have a belly button.
opelmanta1900
5 years ago
Well that was kinda my eventual point... if you're doing babies for money, the money is in food stamps and welfare checks... thousand dollar bonds aren't doing a thing...
teedubbya
5 years ago
I sort of think most babies are made because it feels good and has little to do with politics.
Stogie1020
5 years ago

I have a belly button.

teedubbya wrote:



I knew a girl in college who didn't...
ZKing
5 years ago
Why are we blaming people for having babies? It's not their fault that the stork dropped the little baztrds off....
teedubbya
5 years ago
Wait.... what? I can get coin AND get laid?
Smooth light
5 years ago
Stogie 1020: was her name EVE?

or born in a test tube /🧫.
rfenst
5 years ago

Wrong forum noob. 🌫

Somebody hadda say it...

MACS wrote:


Yup.
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