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Why instead of raising the birth rate, must we bring massive amounts of immigrants each year? For the short time Hungary's loan assistance to families with children has been put in place, it has already had great effects.

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The question applies equally the other way round: why, instead of an race-obsessed government determining that having children is a 'public matter, not a private one' and chastising women for having the temerity to prioritise other things, do we not simply permit people willing and able to do the work into the country?

Irrespective of the merits or lack thereof of paying bonuses for having three or more children, fertility rate in Hungary is still well below replacement rate, and well below the US birth rate for that matter.

That depends on the reasons behind why the birth rate is below the replacement rate. If it's because potential parents feel financial or other insecurity that causes them to not have children, or have fewer than they want, then sure, that's an actual problem that needs to be addressed.

But if the reason is that people just don't feel like having 2 or more children, well, that should be up to them, no?

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