current policy sprinkles benefits over time rather than concentrating it in the hands of the young who need it most
Benefits are opaque. How much does the colleague with four kids get with tax credits or child benefits for this and that program? No idea. Instead reverse the positions: tax and penalize having few children. Print on the tax return every year the extra malus one has to pay into social security. Make childless people fill out annoying and complicated forms to get a small tax return (while people with +3 children are getting them by default), instead of making families fill out forms to get benefits.
Also do DEI/affirmative action for people with children. The state should hire/promote for public servant positions the person with more children (would be counter to meritocratic idea, but the state is not trying to be efficient anyway). Let the intelligentsia compete for prestigious leadership positions/sinecures by having the bigger family first and education inflation second.
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Benefits are opaque. How much does the colleague with four kids get with tax credits or child benefits for this and that program? No idea. Instead reverse the positions: tax and penalize having few children. Print on the tax return every year the extra malus one has to pay into social security. Make childless people fill out annoying and complicated forms to get a small tax return (while people with +3 children are getting them by default), instead of making families fill out forms to get benefits.
Also do DEI/affirmative action for people with children. The state should hire/promote for public servant positions the person with more children (would be counter to meritocratic idea, but the state is not trying to be efficient anyway). Let the intelligentsia compete for prestigious leadership positions/sinecures by having the bigger family first and education inflation second.
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