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I don't suppose it has ever occurred to you that people paying high taxes often have fewer children than the people who get the taxes. Children are expensive if you are the one paying for them.
But enough of this anti-immigration hypocrisy.
Remember, we are all the descendants of immigrants who got free food, housing, medicine, and airfare to Ohio paid for by taxpayers.
Thank you for that observation from Perry Abbasi on X
I am not sure if there is such a proven correlation in economic literature. There are a lot of studies and they mostly contradict each other.
Nobel Prize Winner Gary Becker did research on the marginal cost of children and its impact on fertility rate and . . .not surprisingly . . . . .people have fewer kids if the kids are more expensive to raise and have little impact on overall household income. Back in the 1800s when life was mostly Agrarian, more kids meant more hands to help in the fields and improved crop yields, to babies made in large numbers.
A few places like Quebec had extremely high marginal rates but gave specific incentives for child rearing and the fertility rates perked up very quickly despite the high tax burden.
So that statement of yours has occurred to tons of people going back many decades who could not say with any certainty if the relationship is indeed a good one.
