[quote=patientrenter]afx, i’m all for the best of both worlds in between solutions. but norway is a special case. massive oil revenues and a small, homogeneous, well-educated population.
norway’s lesson for usa: reduce your population by 95%, and things will be easier for the people left.[/quote]
“Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men. It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.”
Indira Gandhi tried this in the 70’s but without a dictatorship, it doesn’t work too well.
“Meanwhile, the younger of her two sons, Sanjay Gandhi, started to run the country as though it were his personal fiefdom, and earned the fierce hatred of many whom his policies had victimized. He ordered the removal of slum dwellings, and in an attempt to curb India’s growing population, initiated a highly resented program of forced sterilization.”
