MinMaximus

For someone with no prior knowledge - can you explain why is that?

I don’t see Muslim mentioned anywhere in their comment - they’ve said theocracy.

Search (Jordan) Black September.

Taxes are paid at the time of sale, or when profits are generated. Tariffs are prepaid. Companies that import raw materials and goods need large amounts of cash to pay the tariffs at the port.

This makes tariffs profoundly more expensive.

Tariffs are also imposed on foreign trade, which doesn’t apply in this meme, as it was a British colony at that time.

Seems like people still don’t know the difference between tax and tariffs.

I don’t disagree with you (apart from maybe $5k being a pocket change in Russia), we need to reduce inequality and bring back financial security in our societies.

There seems to be a small misunderstand on your part though - this baby bonus is not trying to increase fertility, at least not directly. The main goal is to reduce child mortality. The main beneficiaries of these bonuses are low income families, and for them every little helps. It’s also just one part of the support system, as all of the countries from the article have other welfare systems to accompany.

The rest of the world thinks that the USA is weird, yes. But if I was an American, I would take any little help that I can.

What are you arguing here exactly? Are you saying that $5000 are negligible to parents?

What’s your definition of “works” in this context then?

Well it does work actually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bonus

I think you’re confused - seems like you think that a public place is your private space. Public space is a place where people need to consider OTHER people. You just proved OPs point.

I wish there was a community for Warhammer Fantasy Role Play (WFRP). Discovered it few years ago and really love the system and the lore is both gritty and ridiculous-over-the-top-fun.

Can you explain what you mean please.

Classfied?

No need to nitpick because you’re comparing apples to oranges, so I’m trying to understand what you even mean by social security and pensions. All the EEA countries provide free or accessible health care and state pensions by the state and/or military. And the reason why you’re statement doesn’t compute for me is because a lot of the “big ones + scandinavia” are conscription countries that provide everything while you’re in service and you would get military pension if you decide to stay in the army professionally after your mandatory time is over.

When you say “Europeans don’t” which country are you referring to exactly?

I think you misunderstood how the report works. The rankings are from people answering the poll using cantril ladder scoring. Then academics try to look at different statistics in that country to try to explain why people gave their country that score. The academics don’t score the countries.

I’m missing your point? Are you saying that polish people had German passports or that Muslim people don’t have Israeli passports?

I won’t argue about other people’s identity, but nationality wise - if they have Israeli passport, they are Israeli in the census data.

Unfortunately the data doesn’t support your thesis. child birth graph Haredi jews are having more than double births than the average Israeli Muslim.

Combined (secular etc.) Jewish birth rate is on par (slightly higher) than Israeli Muslims and Palestinians in Gaza. (This was even before all the bullshit started last year)