I never bought into the cliched notion of the "welfare queen" and I don't think most women actually had more kids just to collect more money, though I suppose it might be true in some cases. I haven't studied the issue, honestly.
Giving money to rich families escape me. You do have means-testing with RMI and all kinds of warranted and useful social subsidies already, I really don't see the "detestable precedent" / "wrong precedent".
The notion that the President of, say, TOTAL gets allocations if he has 5 children baffles me.
Except that all these things are being eroded in the name of who knows what. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
Still seems odd to me.
Hmm.
It does show that we take a lot of things for granted until confronted with an outsider's viewpoint.
I stand chastised.
