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DINKs are already made to pay for children. They are just paying in an inefficient manner.
K-12 education costs about $11,800 per child in the USA (not per pupil, per child 0-17 that exists in the country, whether or not they are enrolled in public k-12 school). My Googling and back-of-the-envelope calculations get $19,000 per child for the same calculation in Sweden, but this surprises me because I thought we Americans were particularly pathological about overspending on education, so possibly I did something wrong.
Those numbers are cost per child in the population, not cost per student, so a per child payment (much bigger than the ones claimed downthread to have had little effect) could be tried and be revenue neutral.
(Edited to clarify per child rather than per enrolled pupil.)
Clearly, I didn't phrase my comment well enough. I may edit. (I'm also the author of the linked post, BTW.)
Dividing the US k-12 budget by the number of US children 0-17 is $11,800. Dividing the Swedish k-12 budget by the number of Swedish children 0-17, I got about $19,000. (I'm still wondering if I'm missing something, particularly about Sweden.)
Unless I'm way off, I think the main I made still stands - DINKs are subsiding children already, but in an inefficient way.
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