Top Dem Pushing For “One Child” Population Control

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Top Democrat Pushing For “One Child” Population Control In America



June 25, 2013 10:37am PST

One of the most foul things in China is the “one-child policy.” Initially enacted because China feared its population would outrun its resources, it’s led to infanticide, forced abortions and sterilizations, rampant corruption, and the disappearance of at least 100 million girls who would have been born but for the fact that their parents didn’t want their legal “one-child” to be female. Now, a Florida Democrat wants to bring Chinese ideas about population control to America.

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Michael E. Arth, who ran for Florida governor in 2010, is now advocating for America to adopt its own one-child policy in order to fight what Arth sees as dangerously large population growth. In an interview with Vice, this Leftist visionary states his vision for America, one that values “the environment” more than he does human life:

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VICE: What do you think of the projections? Are we looking at a grim future?

Michael E. Arth: The projections don’t mention two things. Firstly, they leave out the horrendous effect population growth is having on the environment. Secondly, they don’t take into account the probability of radical life extension.

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China would have two billion people today if not for their population policies. Nevertheless, China still added 350 million more Chinese since they implemented strict family planning measures in 1978, because of what’s called population momentum. Because of the burst in population growth under Chairman Mao, the average age of the population had dropped. Until these excess young people had their own children, the population increased faster than if you had an evenly distributed demographic. So even limiting families to one child per couple was not low enough to stop population growth.

Now, thanks to the one-child policy – to which there are many exceptions, by the way – China’s ageing population will probably not grow much more from now on, as long as they don’t remove the restrictions.

China, and the rest of the world, would be better served by a choice-based marketable birth license plan, or “birth credits,” that could stop or reverse population growth on a dime. Birth credits allow people to have as many children as they desire and can manage and reward people who are willing to give up that right.

Financially?

Yes. The market would determine the price of a birth credit. In all cases, the cost of the birth credit would be a tiny fraction of the real cost of raising a child. The birth credits would work very well because it’s a very small price to pay for solving the problem, and it leaves choice firmly in place. Each person would be issued half of a birth credit, which he or she can combine with a partner to have one child, or a person can sell his or her (half) credit at the going market rate. Each additional child costs one more credit. Noncompliance would bring a fine greater than the cost of the credit, and there would be sanctions for non-compliant countries (such as migration restrictions).

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Man dragged into “birth control” office for trying to violate China’s one-child policy:

Arth is fine with the loss of individual freedom. After all, underneath all those cuddly environmental street creds, what you’ll really find is an ordinary totalitarian dictator who thinks he knows better than the “little people” out there:

But is it not unethical to dictate how many children people can have?

The limit to individual freedom is where the exercise of an individual right begins to infringe on the rights we hold in common. One aspect of the tragedy of the commons is the belief that people should be able to breed without any regard for others. For 99.9 percent of human history, family planning was unnecessary. Most children died in childbirth and nature cruelly culled the herd through disease, famine, and war. Now that we’re extending the quality and length of our lives, we have to respect the changing realities. Implementation of birth credits is the best compromise to the individual rights versus collective rights dilemma, because choice is preserved and the commons has a vastly greater chance of being saved.

Every decade, you get your nervous nellies who moan that the earth – or a specific country – cannot maintain its population growth. And they’re always wrong, because humans, being the dynamic creatures that they are, continuously come up with ways to produce more food per acre than ever before. When/if there’s less food, population will start limiting itself. Nature doesn’t need Arth’s totalitarian help.

(Just as an aside, we’re willing to bet that Arth’s actual name is something ordinary like Michael Smith, but that he changed it to “Michael E. Arth” so that is middle initial and last name would spell “earth.”)

Video at link:

www.mrconservative.com/2013/06/19857-top-democrat-pushing-for-one-child-population-control-in-america/