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So apparently JD Vance wants to tax "childlessness" Make America Fertile Again: The strange bedfellows of the new baby boom agenda (reason.com)

submitted 2 days ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/uspolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'll just start claiming nonexistent dependants. Or I'll start claiming my pets as my children on all legal documents.

Probably isn't that hard to get forgeries of all sorts of documentation like birth certificates, etc.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

You probably don't even have to try very hard. My cat, which I had when I was a kid and died of old age decades ago, regularly gets preapproved credit card offers sent to my father's house. Still.

Yes, literally a cat. Like, furry, pointy ears, tail, and meow?

I have to think it would be fairly trivial if I put my mind to it and had larceny in my heart to eventually build up enough documentation to get at least some state entities to believe my dead cat is actually a living human, and then do any old thing with that identity.