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To: TimF who wrote (9613)	3/9/2010 2:58:31 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15994

Since its a positive sum game, parents having lots of children (at least lots of children that they are able to support, I'm not addressing the issue of welfare in this post) do not devalue citizenship IMO. Often people prove that your opinion is true of them. Often they prove it is not. I believe that a society which was designed to last more than a couple hundred years might have to recognise the inherent costs and value of citizenship. In China having more than one child is very difficult. There is a history of forced abortions. Clearly China did not value multiple children over manageable population. As I intended to say before, a child costs society long before they ever start to repay those costs. The money spent on baby wards in hospitals and schooling (to name just two costs) are sunk costs long before there is any inkling of whether the person is adding to the common good or merely suckling from the teat of society's good will. I am not stating that there should be a child tax or that there should not be one. I am raising the question as a point of discussion.