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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I used to work as a teller at a bank. That bag of money is over 100k.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

You mean, they're using irrelevant and unrelated content in the message for shock value?

Impossible.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can't expect people to pay for public services themselves; that's done with taxes. Corporations can't have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don't need past a limit if they aren't investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn't doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn’t it like ~$310,000 to raise a kid to 17? That’s, what, 2% of what is needed after the poor child is born? And some woman is going to decide to let a guy nut in her for $5000?

[–] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

This won't even cover the medical costs to give birth

[–] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Even Elon pays better than this

[–] griff@lemmings.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“White babies only please” —Cheetolini

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[–] nathanjent@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago

After he rolls this out he'll start pushing to drop the child tax credit arguing, "they already get so much investment up front. They're so greedy."

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wonder how they'll make it so it only applies to "Aryan" children. Hitler did the same shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

They won't call them Aryan, but it will be the same shit. They'll call it something like Christian babies or some nonsense; then use that as a smokescreen for their racism.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Daycare cost $2k a month

Is that for real? That's more than (many) private schools in Europe.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house in Toronto costs more than a castle in france

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

He should know that you can't buy that many diapers with $5k.

Unless he doesn't do his own diaper shopping I guess...

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need to feed the ones we have now

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Why only after the baby is born? Is there something significant about the moment of birth or something?

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, clearly an embryo/fetus is a child with rights at the moment of conception (/s), so why wait until after delivery?

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[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

$5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that "nobody wants to work" because they're still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I feel like that's more than $5k in the picture if they're all $20 bills.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

What are the odds this is just Clinton's $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?

Except this time there's no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, two months rent for having a baby. That should fix it.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Paying desperate people to produce corpo slaves is the furthest thing from socialism.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Have 4 kids.

5k is couch money when you have kids. It'll maybe take care of a few months of daycare. Now if you're on gov assistance and make next to nothing? This will be great, but don't expect to get a job or climb out of poverty with 5k. A kid will eat that up super fast.

[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The average cost of delivering a baby in the US, including pre- and post-delivery expenses, is roughly $18,865. However, this figure can vary significantly, just gotta come up with the other 14000 dollars lol do Amerikans know other countries don't gouge their citizens for everything including birth? Land of the fee home of the slave

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[–] Nerrad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

So weird. These are the same imbiciles complaining about welfare babies.

[–] pappabosley@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We had this in Australia for a while, where there was no hospital costs for birth, and almost 20 years ago, so it was a considerable help. The conservatives started claiming people were having babies just to get the money and then spending it on big TV's and other luxuries.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 1 week ago

Sounds like classic Conservative projection.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago

More ineffective Band-Aids.

The core issues never get addressed. Prices keep going up.

And those issues will get worse under a corpo like Trump.

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