I really think there are better ways of looking at this. One of the reasons why we have to work is to maintain our property due to things like property taxes. Or to pay rent to a landlord that must pay property taxes.

The government should do more to encourage people to own their own homes and not to own homes that they rent out (and they do some things to help first time home buyers). For instance you can have a system where the government allows you to pay a much lower property tax on only one of the properties you own while forcing you to pay a much higher property tax on any other properties you own. This will reduce the value of a home to people that want to own it and rent it out while increasing its value to someone that wants to own their own home. Doing so will naturally shift the economy towards people owning their own homes where it’s cheaper for everyone because it becomes more expensive to buy a home and rent it out but it becomes cheaper to own your own home and live in it.

It also doesn’t make sense for the government to give you extra money only to take it from you in the form of property taxes. Perhaps the focus should be on the government taking less. Everything the government gives you was taken from somewhere, instead of focusing on how money is given the government should restructure how money is taken in a way that creates a similar effect.

I’m also kinda against the government giving money to people that keep having children. We need to do something about population growth. Perhaps we should do something like China. Or perhaps a cap and trade on childbirth. I posted this random idea elsewhere and will re-post it here.

Why don’t they have a cap and trade system on births. Every person is allowed to have a single child, a couple is allowed to have two children. If you want to have another child past two you must buy the right from someone that has it (and markets determine price) and they lose that right. When you reach a certain age (a reasonable age, old enough to make such a decision, let the government decide how old that is) then you may sell your given right if you haven’t already exercised it.

If two people have a child they both lose half of their right each. Then if they want to have a second child they lose the other half.

Alternatively if they divorce after having one child each person is left with one half of a child that they may have. If one of them wants another child he/she must pair up with someone else that at least has a right to have half of a child to make one full child.

Or if that person pairs up with someone that has no rights to have any more children but they want another child they can buy half of someone else’s right on the open market to make one full right.

If the government later decides that the population is shrinking too fast and they want to grow it or prevent it from shrinking so fast they can then sell additional child rights on the open market.

Alternatively when the population is growing too fast the government can then control the population by reducing the number of rights each person is endowed with. For instance they can decide that each person is only entitled to have 3/4 of a child and rights can be sold in 1/4 increments. Each couple can have 1 & 1/2 children (ie: only one child) but if they want to have a second child they can buy half a right from someone else willing to sell to make two whole rights. When the population begins to shrink the government can adjust the number of endowed rights each person is allowed to have (ie: with a stimulus plan giving people more rights) or they can sell rights on the open market.

Originally posted here

China’s ‘Missing Girls’ Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/03/1913206

If worry have too large population, tax for birth children, help pay for schools, encourage people birth less, help Earth’s environment, costs for land and resource decrease.