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      <![CDATA[1) Licenses and permits are a tax pure and simple<br>
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2) Do you really want to make something that is a Natural Right into a government granted privilege?<br>
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3) What ever you can do legally with a license, you can do lawfully without one, since government cannot license anything that is unlawful. And having children is a lawful act, lets face it they already scammed you with Marriage license, drivers license, gun license, work permit/license etc. etc. all of them are taxes designed to extract money from your pocket!<br>
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4) How will a license stop people doing stupid things, or act responsible?
        
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      <![CDATA[For those interested, there is a full-length treatment of the subject in Michael McFall's _Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment_ (2010).
        
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      <![CDATA[At the end of the day, this sort of licence is impossible to implement. It only takes one person to break the rule and we're in a stale-mate sort of situation.
        
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      <![CDATA[I think it is fair for the government to require birth control of the people taxpayers support, but only if both parents get the aforementioned "shot". I dont purchase a luxury automobile or McMansion I cannot afford and expect the taxpayers to pay for it; why should people expect the taxpayers to support every child they decide to bring into the world?
        
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      <![CDATA[Wow! Talk about the government getting into places it does not belong!
        
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      <![CDATA[What would motivate someone to consider checks/balances on a natural biological process? I can only speculate that it stems from a resentment of someone's current existence.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gregory, it seems you're talking out of both sides of your mouth on your blog. First you're for intervention, then you're against, conveniently ending up 'for'.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gregory, I think your comments merely thinly cover your real motivation and it's clear here:<br>
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"Meanwhile we allow any ole damn fools in the back seat of an automobile to become parents without any government oversight or intervention."<br>
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the last part of the sentence is incompatible with the first. Life unfolds as it should whether it's whitebread like you or not.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am not sure that licensing could ever happen. However this has been my idea for people on welfare:<br>
If you are receiving welfare or workfare then you become a ward of the state.
        
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      <![CDATA[When I walk into any Wal-mart, THAT is when I feel people need a license to have kids.
        
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      <![CDATA[One may think that we have too many kids, but if you look at birth rates in industrialized countries almost all economic strata show a <2.1 (i.e. replacement) birth rate per woman. The only reason that our population is growing is because of immigration and immigrants still having kids.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why should we be encouraging people via tax credits to have more kids anyway? Does the world not have enough people as it is?<br>
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And the parental license idea is a horrible one.
        
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      <![CDATA[Cairo,<br>
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"That is not always the case because a lot of people especially when I was single paid more in taxes and because of the income tax bracket I am in I pay more taxes and when my children are grown I will again pay more taxes." Huh?<br>
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"Yes, families use more resources but I pay for the use of my resources my family use."
        
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      <![CDATA[No, there should not be a license required to have children. But, there should be a license to take your child into what should be "child-free" zones like theaters, restaurants and airplanes.
        
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      <![CDATA[Very interesting blog and subjuct about licensing parents.<br>
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The idea of parents or soon to be parents take parenting clases are a great idea to help with discipline problems and other parenting issues.<br>
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One thing that should be noted is that all want to be parents never have children because adoption is expensive and the red tape is terrible and some are incapable of having children because of medical or other reasons.<br>
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I as a parent have 2 children. I have 2 girls and they are both 12 and 16.
        
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      <![CDATA[One way to regulate childbearing would be to stop giving tax breaks for over two children, and tax more for over four.<br>
After all, it's families that use more resources, not childless single people.<br>
How about this for wealth redistribution: single childless people have alway had to pay more taxes to support those with children.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hey Zigzag:<br>
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Why don't you read my actual blog? I note the eugenics problem and don't advocate licensing parents.
        
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      <![CDATA[laughably shocking premise. eugenics in action.
        
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      <![CDATA[The same government you want to have more control over our family lives are the same people who have made the idea of a spanking into an abusive treatment of a child and therefore scared most parents out of even disciplining there children. These same children grow up irresponsible and careless because they were never taught and that's the real problem.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Gregory Forman]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As the  person who wrote the blog at  issue, I think both Antifa7 and Jason Ursy make good points. It's clear that better sex education and access to birth control would reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jason Usry]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[But how would you regulate child-bearing? The Chinese government has their way, and it involves euthanizing infants like stray animals.<br>
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I fear the government more than I fear bad parenting.
        
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      <![CDATA[Let's have better access to family planning: real sex education for youth, birth control and safe abortions!
        
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