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Why condoms in China are about to get more expensive

www.abc.net.au

China is ending a decades-long tax exemption on contraceptives to push up its birth rate. Experts say the change could leave women and young people more vulnerable.

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I don't know how it is in China exactly, but if it's anything like here, then I think the way to improve the birth rate would be to make people feel more secure in their future with a better safety net and more affordable living.
I was there when they had their 1 child law
- Soon it'll be a minimum of 1 child law with those power hungry freaks.
I've posted a few times about how doubly shortsighted the US is with the immigration situation. The entire developed world is trending towards population stability and then decline, and our infinite growth economy is not going to like that. So, even if we didn't have horrible things being done to actual humans, it would still be a shit strategy.
There goes China actually planning for the future again...
- Are you trying to frame entrapping poor people into raising children through making contraceptives harder to access in some sick state attempt to grow a population for the sake of the economy and military as a desirable long term goal?
  This is an assault on the working class, so we can be fed into their grinder.
  
  No, not at all. I don't think there's any government regulation of family planning that does not end up somewhere dark.
  It's more about how stupid the US approach is vs the big rival that actually seems to care about the future. That doesn't make any specific actions any more noble or less evil.
  Though now that you got me thinking about this again, the US's current rulers would love to do the whole forced breeding thing too. But I think they only want white babies.

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