• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you think fronting the cost of condoms for teenagers is expensive, wait till you see how much it costs the state to provide services for a single teen mother

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      1 year ago

      Or how about we don’t provide services for people who make obvious mistakes. I’d rather keep my tax money than it go to them

      • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I’d rather keep my tax money than it go to them

        Ahh, the classic ‘we shouldn’t reward bad behavior’ line that completely ignores that treating tax money like Santa Candy (to be withheld from the bad little boys and girls) just costs everybody more tax dollars when it means foregoing spending on preventive measures that help avoid expensive problems.

        It’s not rewarding teen pregnancy, it’s preventing it

        Also,

        I’d rather keep my tax money

        You don’t get to keep it either way.

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        Even if we pandered to your every preference, I doubt it would satiate the greed of someone who’d rather see children punished than contribute fractions of a penny to prevent it.

        So why make society worse if it won’t even make you better?