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In reply to the discussion: Listen well DUers - Planned Parenthood was the focal point of this attack [View all]TheBlackAdder
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This is a really weird split in mentality.
These Libertarian types bitch about paying taxes, yet they want additional births to hit their local, state, and federal taxes--to the tune of $18-20K per kid per year. Wealthier families will find a way to get abortions, leaving the people who are more prone to rely on WIC, SNAP, daycare, medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, etc.. The poorer households will be affected more income and job wise, casting them in a lower financial stratus that is difficult to rise from.
The white supremacists bitch about too many 'others,' yet the poor will feel the brunt more, and since there is rampant discrimination in this country, the minorities will suffer from abortion service cuts--leading to more non-whites being born. These guys are really stupid.
There needs to be a Libertarian discussion on the economics of having thousands of extra unplanned births hitting a state's budgets. Each birth will result in over $300K of additional taxes. Rick Perry found this out when he cut abortion services and there were 7K more births, causing over $120M in additional taxes and expenses each year, for 18 years, until the kids are emancipated. And that will be for only one birth year. If you have that same rate or more each and every year, it will pyramid into the billions by the time all grade levels in school are filled with those addional kids.
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