Hmmm, charging guys for not getting a woman pregnant? The government must be keen on spending heaps of money on DNA tests - how else can they ensure who actually fathered a child.
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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Here in Australia we pay people to have babies. Seems to only encourage the ones who shouldn't be having the to begin with though so I'm not sure it's a great idea.
On top of that just about every tax cut ever announced is given to families so in effect people with no children are being taxed more than those with children. Not really different to being fined for not having children.
And all this is going on while we argue about whether we should take more refugees and immigrants!
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I agree - incentive payments seem to have led to increased teenage pregnancies here - much easier to collect a couple hundred dollars / fortnight per child than going to school or - higher being forbid - work for it.
I don't mind being 'penalised' for not having children - give support to families. Hard enough for most of them. What annoys me that the penalties go up and up and up and the government still thinks childless couples need to get penalised even more. Seems a tad unfair to those who would love a child, can't have one and are not allowed to adopt here in Australia.