Several countries have taken significant measures to try to encourage people to have more children and combat falling birth rates, but the U.S. is not one of them. Although the Department of Transportation was recently directed to give precedence to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” earlier this month.

Now Musk, who President Donald Trump tapped to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has vocalized support for tax incentives for mothers.

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    6 hours ago

    Instead of paying people to have kids… Why not universal healthcare including birth control? Why not outlaw forced births?

    This is just some misogynist fantasy from an extremely misogynist fascist.

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      They want cheap, plentiful, stupid labor that is easily fleeced and will fall over itself for shitty pay and shitty work rules. They don’t want an expensive, well treated, unionized and intelligent workforce that will keep the wannabe oligarchs in check. They don’t wan’t to spend any money on labor. They want labor fearful and controlled when only their employer can offer any hope of obtaining the benefits you mention.