[extropy-chat] [SALT] The DEpopulation Problem, this Friday (for forwarding)

[Brian Lee]

>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: Re: [extropy-chat] [SALT] The DEpopulation Problem,this Friday 
>(for forwarding)
>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
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>Your logical problem here is that $810 is a much greater percentage of
>$35k than $1158 is of $300k, and both numbers are significantly less
>than the cost of raising each child. If your cost per child is $5k,
>that $5k is also a much greater percentage of $35k than of $300k. Since
>the $35k guy gets only $810 off his $5k cost of raising his kid, and
>the $300k guy gets $1158 off that $5k cost, the richer guy can afford
>not only more kids, but can afford to spend more money on each kid.

Now you're getting into what the cost of a child is. My point was that as 
the tax burden increases, the tax incentives for having additional children 
also increases.

I have no idea what the cost of a child is, but it's probably pretty high. I 
also made the point that the marginal cost of each child increases with 
volume (call it an economy of scale).

BAL