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Jon Schweppe argues the Valadao Supporting Newborn Parents Act ($2,000 newborn tax credit, paid at the hospital rather than at next year's tax refund, phasing in at 20% so working-class households see the full benefit) i…

The pro-natalism debate misframes the binding constraint. Transfers and zoning address symptoms; the deeper deficit is the social-meaning collapse of family formation as a status-conferring life path, which no fiscal lev…

Pro-natalist policy debates converge too narrowly on monetary transfers (child tax credits, baby bonuses). The binding constraint is cultural — family formation depends on shared expectations of multigenerational continu…