The Chicago Boyz stir up a hornet's nest:
So, collectively we all need children and benefit when they grow into productive adults, but the cost of raising children is increasingly being borne by fewer and fewer in the general population.Childless adults are rapidly becoming economic free riders on the backs of parents...There is already grousing in some blue zones by the childless that they shouldn't have to subsidize the "breeders'" children. How long before child-hostile places like San Francisco become the norm?
The contemptuous attitude towards "breeders" in certain locales is something I've posted about before. Maybe it would help if children in strollers wore t-shirts that read, "In only 15 years, I'll be paying taxes towards your retirement"?
Posted by kswygert at March 6, 2006 12:49 PM