America's birth rate is now a national emergency

[Dr. Who]

I am posting this based on comments in another thread which I don't want to derail. However, the comments posted suggested that America should be importing more Europeans than those from third-world countries. That actually presupposes that Europeans are lining up to immigrate to America. However, the fact is that America is plagued with a very low birth rate.

"The new birth rate numbers are out, and they're a disaster. There are now only 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States. Some of the decrease is due to good news, which is the continuing decline of teen pregnancies, but most of it is due to people getting married later and choosing to have fewer children. And the worst part is, everyone is treating this news with a shrug."

http://theweek.com/articles/642303/a...onal-emergency

Europe has a very similar problem:

"Europe is ageing. On average, each woman has 1.58 children in the EU, substantially below the 2.1 children needed to sustain the current population level. Due to low death-rates and high net-migration, the overall population in Europe may be increasing, but the median age is crawling slowly upwards: 42 years in 2014 compared to just 29 a decade earlier."

http://www.debatingeurope.eu/2016/05.../#.WNxEb28rKM8

So, if you are tasked with population replacement, do you bring in more people who won't reproduce or do you bring in people who will produce future tax payers.

Discuss.

[MisterVeritis]

I am posting this based on comments in another thread which I don't want to derail. However, the comments posted suggested that America should be importing more Europeans than those from third-world countries. That actually presupposes that Europeans are lining up to immigrate to America. However, the fact is that America is plagued with a very low birth rate.

"The new birth rate numbers are out, and they're a disaster. There are now only 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States. Some of the decrease is due to good news, which is the continuing decline of teen pregnancies, but most of it is due to people getting married later and choosing to have fewer children. And the worst part is, everyone is treating this news with a shrug."

http://theweek.com/articles/642303/a...onal-emergency

Europe has a very similar problem:

"Europe is ageing. On average, each woman has 1.58 children in the EU, substantially below the 2.1 children needed to sustain the current population level. Due to low death-rates and high net-migration, the overall population in Europe may be increasing, but the median age is crawling slowly upwards: 42 years in 2014 compared to just 29 a decade earlier."

http://www.debatingeurope.eu/2016/05.../#.WNxEb28rKM8

So, if you are tasked with population replacement, do you bring in more people who won't reproduce or do you bring in people who will produce future tax payers.

Discuss.

Cut all tax rates and collections so two incomes are not required, one to live on and the other to pay the state. Birth rates will rise.

[Dr. Who]

Cut all tax rates and collections so two incomes are not required, one to live on and the other to pay the state. Birth rates will rise.

Then who will pay for the ginormous military budget and service existing national debt?

[MisterVeritis]

Then who will pay for the ginormous military budget and service existing national debt?

Who cares?

[Dr. Who]

Who cares?

Well, you might not, but those who are elected to government may have to.

[MisterVeritis]

Well, you might not, but those who are elected to government may have to.

You implied you wanted a solution for the low birth rate. I gave you the right answer. We have become a slaveholding nation once again. Half of the people work to support themselves and the other half.

It is time to end the welfare programs designed to breed more Democrats. That is the majority of the budget. What does defense cost? 600 billion out of 3.5 Trillion? Everything else is wealth redistribution. Marxism has come to AmeriKa.

It is time to scale it back. Then end it.

[Mister D]

The goal of "population replacement" is not to replace natives with foreigners. The goal is to preserve a particular biocultural entity. Dr. Who's confusion stems from one variant of a classically liberal anthropology that proposes a universal conception of mankind. Instead of proposing a man motivated by solely by rational self-interest, as classical liberals are wont to do, progressives like Dr. Who instead reduce human beings to their base animal appetites. We all sleep, eat and $#@! ergo we're really all the same. It is precisely this (with all due respect) vapid universalism that lies at the root of Dr. Who's abject fear and loathing of religious faith. What makes us truly human inevitably diversifies cultures and men. It leads to different values, different ways of living, different social goals etc.

Dr. Who, you are our resident champion of "diversity" but only on its most superficial level. Honestly, I think you find meaningful diversity very troubling. I think you fear it.

[Cthulhu]

Then who will pay for the ginormous military budget and service existing national debt?

Repudiation of some debt is smart.

And the military could use a haircut.

Fear profits a man nothing.

[Crepitus]

Cut all tax rates and collections so two incomes are not required, one to live on and the other to pay the state. Birth rates will rise.

Cutting the tax rates will not accomplish this

[Scrounger]

Cutting the tax rates will not accomplish this

Not just that one thing, but I listed the other things in an earlier post. Cutting the taxes would only be a starting point.