Many commentators have observed that the birth rates in Blue States are less than those in Red States.
New York, for example, was for generations the most populous state. Not only is that long since changed, but the state is steadily losing population via emigration, as well.
Emigration is largely a function of the less attractive job prospects caused by the crushing embrace of regulations, politically powerful labor unions, and an over-burdening welfare system, along with arguably the highest total tax burden in the United States to finance the state’s advanced system of socialism.
The other factor – declining birth rates – has long been a feature of socialized societies. France, after the 1789 Revolution and establishment of socialism, had the slowest population growth rate among major nations, while capitalist, laissez-faire England’s population grew rapidly. Since the 1960s, when it slid increasingly toward the political Left, Germany has had low birth rates among native citizens. The same pattern appears in the socialistic Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands. All of these nations, of course, are burdened with the high Muslim birth rate.
Among other things, the declining birth rates reflect socialism’s self-centered, materialistic preoccupation, the belief that the good life consists of shedding responsibilities like rearing children and concentrating instead upon sensual gratification through drugs and sexual promiscuity.
The Brussels Journal’s recent posting provides an additional reason:
Socialism Perverts the Family
By The Brussels Journal
Created 2007-01-29 08:00
A quote from Oskari Juurikkala at Mises.org, 24 January 2007
“People will always have children,” assured Konrad Adenauer, the German Chancellor, in 1957. He was convinced that the future of the brave new pay-as-you-go social security system would not be undermined by demographic changes. Adenauer was as wrong as ever. […]
[S]ocial security replaces children and the family as the main support in old age by literally socializing the traditional duties of the family. Why have children when the state will take care of you in your old age? […]
Every kind of socialism creates perverse incentives, and socialism directed to the family perverts the family.
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