I think only very poor countries are overpopulated, because when there is no social security system and you can't save anything for yourself when you get old because you are poor, the only way is to get many children to hope that they will provide for you when you are old.
Rich countries which offer "free" (payed with taxes) social cares like Germany suffer from too many old people and too few children. So you have to offer more benefits for young families to get more children.
If you develop a social security net in poorer countries maybe families will start to get fewer children, because the state will care for you with no exception.
Look at Japan for what will happen then, just last week I heard that the biggest producer of diapers in Japan sells more of the adult sized version than the baby sized one.
The population problem is a result of some people having too many children. As child mortality decreases we will most likely see a decrease in very large families as well.
in the US you would, you would likely not get elected at all if you ran on a "Free Daycare" policy unless you could somehow pay for that free care with out using any tax money
Why? I don't get it. Facilities like these (and health care, care for the old/jobless) benefit our society, why shouldn't you pay for them with tax money?
What else should tax money be used for then?
Why is the US thinking that way?
Well it is like that in Germany, and it worked the last few decades. Homeless people get free food and free shelter.
If the government should not provide anything, why should there be a government? You get taxed because the government provides something for you and the provided services need to get paid. I doubt you want to live in total anarchy without police, firemen or a working sewerage for example.
>You get taxed because the government provides something for you and the provided services need to get paid.
To the extent I want or need those services I will be happy to pay for them individually like I do anything else. If the services government provides me are desired than I should be free to choose to pay for them and if I do not then I would not be able to take advantage of said services.
>I doubt you want to live in total anarchy without police, firemen or a working sewerage for example.
My Fire dept is all Volunteer funded by donations from the community, it gets very little to no tax money. I believe taxes may have paid for the fire truck, but that money could have been raised with out taxes.
I have a septic tank, no government sewer service, but even if I did every city near me has private run water and sewer services that are paid for by the people connected to them not by tax dollars
Police is the only service on your list that is actually paid for by tax dollars, that makes up about .000000000000000000000000000001% of my tax bill, if the police want to send me a bill for their service I will be happy to pay it directly and not have the rest of the government burden.
