How Roe v. Wade Aborted America's Economy

[TVDOC]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/01/how-roe-v-wade-aborted-americas-economy

When thousands of pro-life activists gather on the Mall Monday to protest Roe v. Wade, few in Congress or the media will connect the dots linking the Supreme Court's invention of a constitutional right to abortion 38 years ago to the economic crisis a generation later.
The new GOP-controlled House of Representatives will certainly salute the marchers and may even call for reversing the 1973 overreach. Yet even as Republicans focus on scaling back spending and a debt limit that has nearly doubled in six years, few seem to understand that the Court deserves greater blame than big spenders for bringing the United States to a financial breaking point.

As former Jack Kemp aide John D. Mueller quantifies in his groundbreaking new book, Redeeming Economics, the Court's construction of an unrestricted right to abortion muffled American economic performance by profoundly disrupting marriage and fertility patterns.

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[Ballygrl]

Since Roe v Wade almost 50 million American babies were aborted, 50 million citizens and payers into SS lost.

[thundley4]

Since Roe v Wade almost 50 million American babies were aborted, 50 million citizens and payers into SS lost.

Hm.  Maybe not quite that many taxpayers.  Remember that poor blacks have been the larger victim group of abortionists and Planned Parenthood. Therefore it would seem likely that many of those would have been future welfare clients. It might even work out that it's a wash.

[MrsSmith]

Hm.  Maybe not quite that many taxpayers.  Remember that poor blacks have been the larger victim group of abortionists and Planned Parenthood. Therefore it would seem likely that many of those would have been future welfare clients. It might even work out that it's a wash.

Poor blacks account for a disproportionate percentage, but not the majority.   The lack of both consumers and taxpayers today is certainly part of our country's problem...just as in Europe. 

Aside from that, poor blacks can and do escape the Democratic Plantation...and even if they don't, that is no reason to allow their murder, at any age.

[thundley4]

Poor blacks account for a disproportionate percentage, but not the majority.   The lack of both consumers and taxpayers today is certainly part of our country's problem...just as in Europe. 

Aside from that, poor blacks can and do escape the Democratic Plantation...and even if they don't, that is no reason to allow their murder, at any age.

I wasn't advocating their murder, just wondering if the overall effects on the economy were over exaggerated.

[MrsSmith]

I wasn't advocating their murder, just wondering if the overall effects on the economy were over exaggerated.

I suppose we'll never have a final answer on that one.  However, having grown up poor and raised my first 4 kids with very little, I look around at how the oldest have turned out and find no reason to doubt the effects of killing millions in their generation.  Even if a portion did remain in abject poverty, many would be just like my oldest ones...having an education, a good job, children, owning or renting a home, buying cars, paying taxes.  Our generation decimated their generation, leaving fewer of them to pick up the economy and pay back government waste.

[vesta111]

Hm.  Maybe not quite that many taxpayers.  Remember that poor blacks have been the larger victim group of abortionists and Planned Parenthood. Therefore it would seem likely that many of those would have been future welfare clients. It might even work out that it's a wash.

Most States have a consumer tax or sin tax or some kind of State or Federal tax on food, gas, clothing, house hold taxes and restaurant prepared foods.  Taxes are trickey---one can in my State buy a raw chicken to cook, no tax.  But if the grocery store cooks the chicken before it is sold, there is a tax.  In my state if I keep all the loosing scratch cards from the lottery I can if I buy enough non wining cards. deduct them from my federal taxes----or so they say--.

Not that long ago we kept the receipts for the federal tax on gasoline, cigarettes, booze, the amount of interest charged to credit cards, our mortgage and interest on loans. It is amazing that we were until 10 years ago paying a federal tax on our phone service still in place to pay off the Spanish American war, Some smart alack researched the extra charge and had that one dropped.

We have a so called no tax State, but, that is not true.  Some kind of rigmarole about if one lives in a State tax State but earns a living in a no Tax State, the State tax on your income can be deducted from your federal taxes.

This worry about the poor Blacks or Latinos, Whites or Asian  who pay no taxes is a myth.  In a taxed State everything including buying a Bible has a tax on it.

All this was changed in the 1970's we now pay double tax, federal, on anything that is controlled by the Federal Government.  Buy a gallon of gas, pay federal tax but you cannot deduct the already payed tax from your income.

We actually had more spending power when we could deduct all state, federal taxes on us,  be we rich or poor, we Americans ran right out and bought something with our tax returns.

Very confusing for us that do not have a MBA ,CPA, or a Lawyer specialising in taxes. Even then the people that take the advice of these Experts often go to jail while the Experts walk about free as a bird.

It was the tax on tea that started us on the road to freedom, yet today we all rich and poor are taxed without our knowledge ----We all pay to live here,.

Beatles song "The Tax Man"---If you walk to work they tax your feet.