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Originally Posted by GhostHawk
First off I don't know of anyone in the USA who buys 2 months of insurance then drops it.
Takes 9 months to get to the point where they will cover preexisting conditions!
I'll agree with handing out debt to baby's seems like it might be one way to lower the national debt, plus it might make some folks think twice before having 6 or more. If they knew that each one was going to rack up a load of debt. And if they are going to have that many, let them pay for the privilege.
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You should be thanking those people having 6 babies -- they are the next generation of workers that are going to be paying taxes to support your retirement. The current overall US birthrate is at 2.1/woman, exactly replacement rate for the population, just enough to keep a steady population.
Much of Europe is in a demographic death spiral, with birth rates in countries such as Greece as low as 1.3 and Portugal as low as 1.4. These countries also have crushing governmental entitlement obligations for the now aging populations and and next generation there won't be enough working age people to be taxed and pay these obligations. The only reason most of Europe doesn't have a declining population is due to immigration and the usually much higher birth rate of the immigrants.
-Marcy