#MarchForScience open thread

[TheReal_ND]

Heh

[Martin Hash]

The Right needs to Milo this Bill Nye the Fake Scientist guy.

[TheReal_ND]

Nye is an avid swing dancer[81] and describes himself as agnostic.[82]

Huh. No kids. So we're hooking him up with Milo?

[TheOneX]

Heh

So he wants us to go full on China?

[TheReal_ND]

Heh

So he wants us to go full on China?

The idea is too pay people extra money to have less kids. It's actually really brilliant. If combined with a drastically revised immigration system we could really turn around the demographic trends if we were inclined to do that.

[Martin Hash]

Pay to NOT have kids?! WTF. We barely got replacement birthrate now, and it's the dorks having kids. We need to pay smart people to have kids. "Pay" as in Day Care, tax deductions & healthcare. And this is a State obligation, not business' responsibility. What's with the Paid Maternity Leave BS? State should pay that, and help in job placement when the mother returns to the workforce. (My daughter was 6 days old her first day at Day Care.)

[Speaker to Animals]

We should eliminate any marriage tax penalties, remove financial incentives for women to blow up marriages, and subsidize day care.

It doesn't seem likely that society is going to convince women that they really can't both have a career and be good mothers, so we might as well just subsidize the fucking day care so we don't go extinct now.

Lolbergs might not want to hear this one either: if you want an instant boost to the fertility rate, then vacate all student debt incurred before something like last year. Then consider the 2008 bailout paid for. The banks are back to square one with respect to the American people.

[Ex-California]

We should eliminate any marriage tax penalties, remove financial incentives for women to blow up marriages, and subsidize day care.

It doesn't seem likely that society is going to convince women that they really can't both have a career and be good mothers, so we might as well just subsidize the fucking day care so we don't go extinct now.

Lolbergs might not want to hear this one either: if you want an instant boost to the fertility rate, then vacate all student debt incurred before something like last year. Then consider the 2008 bailout paid for. The banks are back to square one with respect to the American people.

That would not only be a boon to the fertility rate but it would do great things for the housing market, auto industry, vacation industry, and pretty much economy in general.

[TheReal_ND]