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Trump administration could give $5,000 bonus to boost birth rate (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Trump really doesn’t have a clue how much it costs to have a baby let alone raise one, does he? $5k is a drop in the bucket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

$5k is at least one order of magnitude too small

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

US News puts the average cost to be $300k. So yeah, a bit off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just have sixty kids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I believe the term is pulling an Elon

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