Paying Rich Women to Have Babies is Ridiculous

The top 3000 business’ get taxed a levy for the Liberal Party's expensive parental leave scheme and those business' pass that tax on in higher prices, so everybody pays for couples to have children. Outrageously, we all pay for wealthy women to have babies. 

What costings there are show that only half of this expensive parental scheme will be paid for by the levy.

This expensive scheme that favours the rich couples and disadvantages the poorer couples is really only being proposed to indulge Tony Abbot and his Prime Ministerial aspirations.

As many households don’t have children as do have children, so this is a scheme, that at best, only applies to 50% of the population. So, it is an inherently unfair scheme.

However, the biggest problem with this scheme is the fact that the world is now overpopulated. At 7 billion people on the planet we are now at a critical stage of over population where the planet is faltering, at best. The world population will, most likely, double in the next 50 years and at 15 billion people planet Earth is unsustainable.

I know politicians have their heads buried in the 3 year term sand bucket, but we, actually, should be discouraging couples from having babies. We should make it more expensive for couples to have babies, not paying them do to so.

Immigration will fix any problem with the short fall in the ageing population, as it always has in the past. The world population must be looked at as a global number, not a country specific number.