Should people in China who pay a lot in taxes be exempt from the one child policy?

[Boojatta]

The idea is that people who pay a lot in taxes might be more likely than other people to have children who will pay a lot in taxes. "A lot" could be anything more than one standard deviation above the median amount of taxes paid by taxpayers in China.

[customerserviceguy]

1. It's hard to call the one-child policy

reproductive freedom. We should be against it in principle, no matter what the exceptions might be.

[Boojatta]

2. If I were to refrain from proposing exceptions,

then would the government of China be more likely to simply abolish the entire one child policy?

[customerserviceguy]

4. So, your thought is that this is 'a step in the right direction'?

I guess that's one way to look at it. I simply view it as totalitarianism.

[JVS]

3. That all depends on what the goals of the Party are.

The first issue is, does the CPC want to allow more population growth. Then come questions of class.

If the CPC wants to create a class comparable to the Western middle class, then the one child policy should still be applied (or be applied even more zealously) in order to prevent the dilution of resources among multiple offspring.

If the CPC wants to maintain a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, then the rich should be permitted (or even forced) to procreate more in order to split up family wealth between heirs.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. Maybe so (For a surprising reason)

More heirs for richer families breaks down concentrations of wealth.

I don't know exactly how that applies in China, knowing nothing of Chinese inheritance law.

But as a general rule, the world benefits when the rich have a higher than average number of children.

(In practice they do the opposite.)

[McCamy Taylor]

6. I thought they already were. Can't you pay a tax to have more kids?

[Duer 157099]

8. I thought so too. There's a "penalty" fine for having more than one

So yes, the wealthy can have as many as they can pay for.

[Obamanaut]

7. Oh good. We are finally out of stuff to worry about in the US, so we can

start in on the family size of Chinese citizens.