Boring, dull, expensive and risky. We need to incentivize people to do it, not just give them vaguely nationalistic reasons to do so.

Pretty much the only people holding up births in the US is young people who accidentally got banged up. That demographic has only been shrinking as access to contraceptives and education goes up.

We don’t want to remove privileges from people, we want to add on incentives. Currently, there’s a million and one incentives not to have kids.