Not sure why people are making fun of Trump's $5K baby bonus. Kamala Harris proposed something very similar, based on a successful program piloted by RxKids in Michigan. It's a good idea. It's the *rest* of Trump's agenda that is bad for babies/moms/families
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/harris-child-tax-credit-flint-michigan/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/18/harris-child-tax-credit-flint-michigan/
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With Trump, it's here's 5k, then the middle finger for all other programs. Hence, laughable.
It's like saying "Not sure why people are making fun of Jeffrey Dahmer calling for more funds to to stop crime."
Then what the hell is the point of this comparison?
Thus likely making people not want to vote.
Dems screwed up from the start.
That’s why we’re making fun of it.
GTFOH!
$5K to have the child, then endless roadblocks and hurdles from there.
That's why it's cynical to me. Somewhat similar
But I can't.
When Elon says Am. birth rate keeps him up at night (Fox News interview) it is about only one thing.
Trump is offering a prize, an award.
Kamala was offering to help folks knowing that having and raising kids is expensive.
The reason I know it’s different is the GOP is set to further reduce the Child Tax Credit. Kamala would have increased it.
If Dems want it we’ll get it once we overthrow this regime.
Without any other help, $5k is a mere drop in the bucket of the cost of a child starting with the medical bills during pregnancy and birth.
Never give Trump or GOP credit for hollow gestures that are superficially similar to Dems.
Trump wants to give people $5k for having a child and… that's it.
They're not the same and Trump's plan is awful and we should make fun of it.
Increase births
Which is Trump's stated purpose
Effectively, "Great, you'll give us $5,000 for having babies but [ALL OF THIS OTHER ANTI-PARENT -CHILD POLICY]."
He won’t care what happens to them once they’re born and is cutting services they’d need.
It's also like school vouchers: if it's still not affordable even after the $5k, the $5k is mostly just a kickback to those who already can.
It probably needs to be $10,000 or more. Life is much more expensive in the Golden Age
It'd be like school vouchers. More money for the few.
Because they’re infected by “Blue-good, red-bad” brain rot.
My point is that many (most?) folks on social have the memory of a gnat
Stop funding breeding for breeding's sake, in a world that doesn't value the living.
Yeah that $5000 bribe seems like a lot.
It’s not a good idea, Catherine.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the problem is the lunatic left wing. This is most fundamentally why Democrats lost the 2024 election.
https://bsky.app/profile/johnaddams2024.bsky.social/post/3lo4tohzh6227
Kind of like how sugar is a good idea for a cookie recipe, but requires other ingredients to complete the idea. Other ingredients that the Trump admin is gutting to just give us sugar.
Half of pregnancies in the US used to be unintended. Short of restricting birth control, birth rates will stay low.
These policies are not remotely similar.
Universal healthcare, daycare; higher education
Higher minimum wage
affordable housing
is the Kamala plan!
So yeah, the musk plan can be rejected as stupid.
A $5K payment in the USA won’t get mom out the hospital door. $5K probably isn’t her first year deductible in our FOR PROFIT Health Insurance system.
No smart people will take that deal.
Trump: we'll give you $$ if you have a (White) child. No other support.
Harris: if you choose to have a child, we'll help you with maternal healthcare, tax credits, family leave, expanded Head Start, etc
These are not good or serious people. It's not a real offer. They are not offering it to better the entire country. Just some of it.
These are people who must be fought at every single level.
I’ve watched Republicans do this for at minimum 15 years. They frame everything through- “What will help us gain power and make our opponents look bad”
Power accumulation needs to be the goal.
The Army's 250th birthday is only an excuse for Trump to get his own birthday parade.
And without social safety nets, the baby bonus is just a ploy to grow the number of poor and under educated voters who will fall for GOP promises.
Don't say you want more kids born when your secretary of health doesn't think they should be safe from measles 🤷♀️
Reasonable & realistic solutions, that is. Not some outdated solution that didn’t even work well in the 50s
Pro-creation, not pro-life.
With Kamala, it was more of a "if you have a baby and need financial help."
Unlike Harris, as you have repeatedly pointed out, the rest of Trump's agenda is been a war on children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/18/trump-children-head-start-lead-vaccines/