No One Mentions the Gorilla in the Room: How will Red States Afford the Extra Child Births?

[TheBlackAdder]

Is this some sort of taboo topic, as you can't put a price on life?

Let's use Florida as an example:

What the GOP will get will be Welfare States, and many will become a Top Moocher State like Florida is already. The poor will be forced to birth children, while richer people can travel out-of-state for abortions, who will add stress to supplemental services. Each additional birth above stasis adds $12K in a year in educational costs each and every year of schooling and preschool. If just 10K additional births are forced, that will add about $1.5 BILLION in additional taxes Florida taxpayers have to pay over 18 years, until they graduate 12th grade. And that's only for 10K births in ONE BIRTH YEAR for education, not supplemental services. If there are 50K births in a year, those taxes are multiplied accordingly. There will be an explosion of taxes in Red States that will drive them into bankruptcy in a decade. EACH AND EVERY YEAR, THESE TAXES WILL COMPOUND AS A NEW GRADUATING CLASS OF ADDITIONAL BIRTHS IS ADDED TO THE ROLE.

Just wait until Florida residents have to pay that $9K early years and $12K primary years education costs per kid. $160K just for basic education per child over 18 years. That's not daycare, food, heat, lodging, medical expenses are applied. Since this targets the poorer of the state, most will be dependent on supplemental services. Multiply those individual child expenses across tens of thousands in a given birth year, and then compound that each and every year. Ten thousand kids born in one year will amount to nearly $2 Billion by the time they are emancipated. Enjoy your state bankruptcies Red States! Of course, you'll try to mooch off of other states, like you always do.

Yep. One just has to look at their property taxes and see the number one cost is education. In, NJ, where I live, it costs around $16K per year plus $800 in busing per child. If you have the poorest people, ones who are heavily dependent on supplemental services, these costs will be even larger. This might explain why a lot of Red States cut supplemental services, push for home schooling and church based education as a way to cut costs, while providing a lower grade of education product. These states are all for this now, but in a few years they'll be kicking themselves when the bills come due. Then more people will become up in arms that their school taxes are too high. From 1950 onward, the US birth rates per 1000 people have been steadily dropping. For the past 5 years it's been hovering at 12 per 1000. This stasis is why we don't see large fluctuations in education costs. But now, there is an imbalance and soon those effects will be felt.