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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by bell-cot on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:02PM (#36470316)
Modest idea: Moderately tax no-kids zones. Spend the money to subsidize services which are ~essential to those with young children (such as day care) and ~useless to those without.
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by abecedarius on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:22PM (#36470584)
Childless taxpayers subsidize the public school system. I get the impression this is a substantial cost already.

A better starting point is to take down artificial costs imposed on childrearing, like https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-car-seats-as-contraception

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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by nfriedly on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:03PM (#36470997)
Most people go through the public school system - so childless or not, you could think of that tax as paying back for the education they already received.
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by abecedarius on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:18PM (#36471122)
1. Their parents paid.

2. From my experience of public school it's more of a cost than a benefit. Many thousands of hours wasted, bullying incurred, etc. (That its value was negative does not reduce the other point about cost in taxes.)

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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by abenga on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:55AM (#36476938)
Their parents also received public education. How far back do we go?
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by abecedarius on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:39AM (#36478945)
If you want to think of it that way, the recursion does have a base case, and it goes how I said. But it's simpler to follow the money in the now.
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by analog31 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:17PM (#36471116)
Everybody subsidizes the school system. And the productivity of educated workers subsidizes everybody. It's the bargain of the millennium.
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by abecedarius on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:24PM (#36471174)
This is a common belief with terrible support and a good case against it. https://www.econlib.org/caplan-callard-the-case-against-educ... (I can recommend the book.)
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by antisthenes on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:18PM (#36472160)
Caplan is a well known hack of an economist.

Seriously recommending his work betrays a serious lack of knowledge of the field.

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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by abecedarius on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:39AM (#36478947)
Namecalling.
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Re:Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South ... by thefz on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:48AM (#36477659)
The childless are already paying for those with children, but let's make them pay twice because it satisfies your parent agenda.
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