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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well immigration *was* the answer [/quote]

Grrr this answer always upsets me. And not because I am anti immigrants. Why are we relying on immigrants instead of letting our population have children? Dh and I are now UMC, but we waited until our mid 30s to have kids because we couldn’t afford it from 25-35. We didn’t have maternity leave and also couldn’t afford to be a sahm. I have so many other friends who would like to have had a second or third child and couldn’t afford it. [/quote]

I agree with you and the answer is that making it easier for you to have children would create taxes on businesses and they don’t want that.  Immigrants on the other hand will just create more demand and be cheaper labor instantly.

Another argument I have seen is that birth rates are falling in countries with appropriate safety nets too.[/quote]

Immigrants create an immediate strain on schools and Medicaid. They are not cheaper when you factor everything in. The issues is that our schools are funded by local property taxes and not the federal government so they have different sources of funding. [/quote]

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