The right-wing think tank behind Project 2025 is now crafting new policy suggestions, including an incentive for married couples to have more children, according to a report.
Following its controversial 900-page blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term, the Heritage Foundation is now drafting a new position paper that includes calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family,” referring to the program to develop the first nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported.
The forthcoming paper, titled “We Must Save the American Family,” reportedly urges the government to pour funds into individual families rather than child care programs, like Head Start, according to the Post.
The Heritage Foundation is also urging the president to issue orders that require all proposed policies to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family.” If a program scores poorly, it should be revamped, according to the Post.
“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” the paper reportedly reads.
Encourage people to have more kids by…
Ending vaccine requirements for public schools.
Cutting funding for mRNA vaccines.
Pushing for child marriage.
Pushing for child labor.
Essentially outlawing women’s health care.
What else am I forgetting?
They might be onto something, aren’t birthrates generally higher when child mortality is high?
Trying to get rid of birthright citizenship
Well, they don’t want Mexican babies, just good and pure white babies.
God that hurt to type
I can garunfuckingtee they don’t want my white as a reflector ass to breed, all of my kin who knows our history are anti authorities as a whole. At least towards authorities who didn’t earn it IE doctor good cop bad, no this isn’t because that side of my kin we’re bandits and still doing shit like this into my lifetime.
Tanking the economy thereby massively increasing financial insecurity, you know the number one thing that discourages people from deciding to have kids.
Yah. Who the fuck can afford kids when you can barely afford rent, let alone want them while the world burns.
Yeah, but if you take away the choice from the parent that will be burdened with the emotional and financial costs of bringing up a child, that won’t even matter.
Nothing meaningful to address school shootings
Fighting against free school lunches (need-based or otherwise)
Further commodification of housing, unaffordability
Increasing concentration of wealth in hands of fewer and fewer - we are devolving into a winner-take-all paradigm
Increasingly dangerous roads for pedestrians and cyclists (children cannot drive)
Supporting a livestreamed genocide and persecuting those who speak out against it
Rolling back labor protections
Rolling back environmental protections
Fun fact: if the air is dirty and the water is poisoned and all the plants and animals are dead, people will want to have lots of kids.