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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9547)	2/22/2010 7:14:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15994

I saw the posts about tradable citizenship. I was asking for something more specific. What's meant by "birth costs to society". That statement seems to imply that a birth is a net cost to society, but I don't think it generally is (yes temporarily the newly born person will be a dependent, but most add to the economy and society over time). Specifically, if a citizenship is a marketable product, what is the status of children of parents who own such a citizenship? It would depend on how you set up the citizenship scheme. If you only make it a marketable product by selling citizenship, but keep the current rules as far as people born here, or born of American parent(s), than either there is no change for them, or they have a commodity they could sell (giving up their citizenship in exchange for the purchase price). If you change the other rules, than it would be whatever you change them to.