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Like at a car dealership, "Sure, that's a BEAUTIFUL MERCEDES! But lets talk dollars and cents..."
Let's talk dollars and cents about the wonderous respect for the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception if perfection of this was obtained.
What's the price tag of pro-life's goal? What would it have been without Roe V. Wade and pure anti-abortion laws with perfect compliance?
Well, here's the sticker price...
There have been over 50,000,000 abortions since Roe V. Wade.
What if pro-life had got it's way and none happened. Pro-life is clear that a woman should instead give up an unwanted newborn than murder it in pregnancy.
What would 50,000,000 children in foster care cost?
Well, there are 500,000 thousand children in foster care now. The cost is $33,000,000,000 per year.
50,000,000,000 would cost 3.3 trillion dollars per year. Or 59 TRILLION over 18 years.
However, this also would be growing about $80 billion more each year. Another $80 billion, then $160 billion the next year, another $240 billion by year 3, $320 billion by year 4...
$400 billion (5) $480 billion more (6) adding still another $560 billion on top of that by year 7...
So... where would the about 80 TRILLION dollars have come from? The additional $4 to $5 TRILLION per year - and always growing?
Where would you get it from now? Next year? The year after? And the extra hundreds of billions of dollars it keeps growing to?
That does NOT figure the costs of child abuse for women who keep an unwanted pregnancy. That costs about twice as much as foster care costs.
So, "pro-lifers" - how are you going to raise the $$? Tax increases? Say a 200% increase across the board? Initially by shifting the entire military budget to foster care? Then all medicare and social security money? Maybe a 50% tax on all bank accounts, stocks, mutual funds and 401Ks? Sell the midwest to China?
To buy the Mercedes you have to talk to the finance department. Let's hear pro-lifers financing plan?
We know your platitudes and slogans. Heard them ad nausea. Now let's hear how you'll pay for it.
Child Abuse and Neglect Cost Nation over $100 Billion per Year - The Pew Charitable Trusts
In U.S., Foster Care Funding in 'Crisis'
Let's talk dollars and cents about the wonderous respect for the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception if perfection of this was obtained.
What's the price tag of pro-life's goal? What would it have been without Roe V. Wade and pure anti-abortion laws with perfect compliance?
Well, here's the sticker price...
There have been over 50,000,000 abortions since Roe V. Wade.
What if pro-life had got it's way and none happened. Pro-life is clear that a woman should instead give up an unwanted newborn than murder it in pregnancy.
What would 50,000,000 children in foster care cost?
Well, there are 500,000 thousand children in foster care now. The cost is $33,000,000,000 per year.
50,000,000,000 would cost 3.3 trillion dollars per year. Or 59 TRILLION over 18 years.
However, this also would be growing about $80 billion more each year. Another $80 billion, then $160 billion the next year, another $240 billion by year 3, $320 billion by year 4...
$400 billion (5) $480 billion more (6) adding still another $560 billion on top of that by year 7...
So... where would the about 80 TRILLION dollars have come from? The additional $4 to $5 TRILLION per year - and always growing?
Where would you get it from now? Next year? The year after? And the extra hundreds of billions of dollars it keeps growing to?
That does NOT figure the costs of child abuse for women who keep an unwanted pregnancy. That costs about twice as much as foster care costs.
So, "pro-lifers" - how are you going to raise the $$? Tax increases? Say a 200% increase across the board? Initially by shifting the entire military budget to foster care? Then all medicare and social security money? Maybe a 50% tax on all bank accounts, stocks, mutual funds and 401Ks? Sell the midwest to China?
To buy the Mercedes you have to talk to the finance department. Let's hear pro-lifers financing plan?
We know your platitudes and slogans. Heard them ad nausea. Now let's hear how you'll pay for it.
Child Abuse and Neglect Cost Nation over $100 Billion per Year - The Pew Charitable Trusts
In U.S., Foster Care Funding in 'Crisis'