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Economist Jeffery Degner joins Ryan McMaken to discuss why government plans to increase the birth rate have never actually worked. But offering to give voters free money for having children is often good politics.

0:00 Intro — Jeffrey Degner on subsidizing the family 1:29 What JD Vance is actually proposing 4:59 The fertility crisis and the 2.1 replacement rate 6:26 Two incomes to get by: inflation and family formation 10:08 Where does the money come from? 12:48 Europe already ran this experiment 15:03 South Korea’s billions, and the short-lived bump 16:52 The non-monetary reasons people actually have children 19:11 Roger Scruton on state-sponsored culture 24:39 The state-produced animal: servile adults 29:03 Homeschooling as a reversal that worked 30:46 Conservatives once said welfare destroyed families

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