Hungary passed laws

– Giving women a 25% reduction in income tax for EACH CHILD she has FOR LIFE
– Large loans for new married couples, 25% of the loan is forgiven per child, 4 kids = 100% loan forgiven

– Marriages have doubled
– Divorces have halved
– Abortions have more than halved

Turns out people do want to get married and have children, they just can’t afford it

“Hungarians have done some interesting stuff. If you’re a couple that marries before the age of 30, you get a large loan. For every child you have, 25% of the loan is written off. So if you have 4 children, the loan is completely written off.

They’re spending about 5% of GDP on this, very expensive, but if you eliminated stupid and costly climate commitment, lots of foreign aid to countries who hate us, and the money we spend on battery farming foreign nationals in social housing and asylum accommodation, we might be able to make it and it would be a much more sound investment.

They’ve also said to women, if you have children, for each child you have, 25% of income tax will be knocked off for life.

So that means that by the time that you have raised your kids and grown up, if you’re running a little business on the side or you decide to go work full time, you are never gonna pay income tax again. So you get a second lease on life the moment your kids have left to go to university and had children of their own.

— The encouraging metrics for the long term is that divorces have halved, abortions have more than halved, marriages have more than doubled. And that was during lockdown where every single other country in Europe, all of those metrics were flatlining and decreasing.”

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