Have four or more babies in Hungary and you'll pay no income tax for life, prime minister says

Hungary's prime minister has announced a raft of measures aimed at boosting the country's declining birth rate and reducing immigration.

Giving his annual State of the Nation address Sunday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced a seven-point "Family Protection Action Plan" designed to promote marriage and families.

Measures announced included waivers on personal income tax for women raising at least four children for the rest of their lives and subsidies for large families to buy larger cars. The 'action plan' also extended a loan program to help families with at least two children to buy homes. Every woman under 40 will also be eligible for a preferential loan when she first gets married.

The government has also said it will spend more on Hungary's heathcare system and will create 21,000 creche places. In addition, grandparents will be eligible to receive a childcare fee if they look after young children instead of the parents, Orban said.

"There are fewer and fewer children born in Europe. For the West, the answer (to that challenge) is immigration. For every missing child there should be one coming in and then the numbers will be fine," Orban said, Reuters reported.

"But we do not need numbers. We need Hungarian children," he said, announcing the incentives program.

Referring to the action plan, Orban said "this is Hungary's answer (to challenges) rather than immigration," he said, according to English-speaking news service Daily News Hungary.


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That's one way to make sure you have enough workers to support the system. Give women the incentive to produce them.

So have babies to provide workers? What are we, honey bees?

Well, I can understand why they want more people of Hungarian descent rather than have some dirty immigrants pouring over their borders. After all, check out this extensive list of the accomplishments of Hungary:

They tried to stop the Russians invading !

eddie wrote:So have babies to provide workers? What are we, honey bees?

Well yes. With an ever expanding and aging population, someone has to support the social programs that support the non worker bees.

Dude, that makes no sense. It’s just fuckeries.

nicko wrote:They tried to stop the Russians invading !

Mate Hungary invaded the Soviet Union, alongside the Nazi's

Night everyone

The Danes are doing something similar. The Ponzi scheme requires an ever expanding group of workers to keep it afloat. You either got make them at home or import them.

The replacement rate for humans is about 2.3 kids per woman. Below that and populations decline. Japan is facing a huge issue now, because they don't really do immigration well. Most European countries are in the same boat. If you are going to redistribute wealth, you need someone to take it from.

Japan and Russia both have smaller populations now, than they had 50 or 60 years ago...

Both countries lost the equivalent of a 'generation' back in WWII (with around 80% of those losses being male).

Both countries have emigration outpacing immagration.

And, the birth rates are also too low in both (for quite different reasons..).

Sometimes, I reckon Russia and Japan should consider an amalgamation --  Japan has innovation and technology,  Russia has lots of natural resources and plenty of open spaces;  and ethnically and culturally, some groups in Russia's far east aren't that far removed from those in northern Japan..