1 way to increase Singapore birth rate
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It can be quite tricky.
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The govt is running this place like a company, companies buy ready make talents and peoples to replace the old or unskill people, because to recruit from the base, it takes time and lots of effort, and it may not even get the right result.
Our Govt and our country, singapore, my second home, is still a very young country, the govt in view of wanting to excel in economy and money, cannot afford to wait for the lower birthrate to go back to normal, they had long give up the notion of supporting birthrate increases after the last package gift of 18 k see no light at the end of the tunnel,
"If singaporean do not want to give birth, which the govt cannot help much, so be it, we shall have to import foreigners in to supplment the shortage inorder to maintain and at the same time, improve our economy so that all of us will have jobs, good jobs" LHL in the early ND rally speech.
The matter here is, nobody challenged his speech then, no objection, instead all clapped hand and approved on it. But in my view, the govt had not done enough to promote birthrate, and by instilling more Fs in, it make the matter worse instead of improving on it. The true is, they have totally ignore and do not bother about low birthrate of singaporean anymore, it all up to you.
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I believe that there is not much that can be done in terms of increasing birth rate....for the very simple reason that there is no space.
Singapore is a small city-state.....it is already very crowded and is very high density, highly urbanised, and it is also a mature economy.
There is not enough land..........if the population keeps growing, where will the people go to ? Pulau Ubin..?
Because the land is scarce.......the price of land is higher and higher....and because the price of land is higher, price of property is higher, and that puts a dampener on young couples ability to marry and procreate......and this problem is compounded with the fact that Singapore is a mature service economy, there is no oil, no gas.......because it is a mature service economy, high living standards, many households have 2 income (husband and wife) nowadays it is rare that a young couple can rely only on husband's income, most young women go out to work.
Nothing can be done......birth rate will naturally increase when the population shrink to more sustainable level.
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there are many ways to increase birth, but is the government ready to pay for it?
1) reduce income tax for every child in the household by $5,000. meaning if you have 4 kids, $20,000 income tax exemption.
2) a baby born, baby bonus $10,000 in cash bonus. 80% bill reduction in maternity stay in hospital, deducted by CPF medisave. the baby's education and medical expenses from kindergarden to JC/Poly will be 50% subsidy by the government.
3) subsized for IVF treatment for up to 70%, payable by CPF medisave for childless couple.
4) to encourage marriage, income tax reduction of up to 50% for couple for 3 years. apply for new flat grants for first timers of increased to $50,000, plus throw in renovation grant of up to $15,000
5) first time married couple, giving birth within 1 year of marriage, will get the baby bonus increased to $15,000 in cash bonus and income tax reduction of up to 60% for the following year.
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u just have to remove the fear of commitment and the biased liabilities against men in favour of women....only a balanced gender protection for both sexes could then improve the situation of singles, and men would feel more confident stepping into marriage...aside to other subsidies etc.
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Originally posted by Rooney_07:
there are many ways tog increase birth, but is the government ready to pay for it?
1) reduce income tax for every child in the household by $5,000. meaning if you have 4 kids, $20,000 income tax exemption.
2) a baby born, baby bonus $10,000 in cash bonus. 80% bill reduction in maternity stay in hospital, deducted by CPF medisave. the baby's education and medical expenses from kindergarden to JC/Poly will be 50% subsidy by the government.
3) subsized for IVF treatment for up to 70%, payable by CPF medisave for childless couple.
4) to encourage marriage, income tax reduction of up to 50% for couple for 3 years. apply for new flat grants for first timers of increased to $50,000, plus throw in renovation grant of up to $15,000
5) first time married couple, giving birth within 1 year of marriage, will get the baby bonus increased to $15,000 in cash bonus and income tax reduction of up to 60% for the following year.
good ideal. Apply it too on my family
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as i mentioned. brownie will do that. free hospital fee, free school fee. they will be the production of next generation kids. yellows are working hard to make singapore government more rich. while the brownie are enjoying the rebats, so they are too free and everyday poking each other and results to increase in birth rates,rapes and riots.
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if me and angel do our part, make her every nite, she can give borth to twins per year straight through five years we can make 10 babies already. like that 2=10 sg birth rate sure boostno need alien to por
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Originally posted by Veggie Bao:
I believe that there is not much that can be done in terms of increasing birth rate....for the very simple reason that there is no space.
Singapore is a small city-state.....it is already very crowded and is very high density, highly urbanised, and it is also a mature economy.
There is not enough land..........if the population keeps growing, where will the people go to ? Pulau Ubin..?
Because the land is scarce.......the price of land is higher and higher....and because the price of land is higher, price of property is higher, and that puts a dampener on young couples ability to marry and procreate......and this problem is compounded with the fact that Singapore is a mature service economy, there is no oil, no gas.......because it is a mature service economy, high living standards, many households have 2 income (husband and wife) nowadays it is rare that a young couple can rely only on husband's income, most young women go out to work.
Nothing can be done......birth rate will naturally increase when the population shrink to more sustainable level.
War is a good way to reduce the population. But the trouble with war is that healthy strong men get wasted, and the skinny weakling stay back and produce more more weaklings. This is why we are getting SNAGs, homosexual, metrosexual, boy bands, and don't know what in future. I think the male will beome womens' pet in future.
And true men would be like Elton and Dave, with their child.
When the population was small and there was no television, father mother plus eight children was quite common. Now,how to house 10 people in a flat.
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If the couple give birth to a baby, the government will give them a new house if they just get married and dont have a house yet.
If they give birth to another one, governement will upgrade their house with extra room.One child per room. They can get up to a max of a five room flat.
If they give birth to a twin, it will be considered as two children.
It solve the problem, of having no space for children.
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Originally posted by Lokey:
If the couple give birth to a baby, the government will give them a new house if they just get married and dont have a house yet.
If they give birth to another one, governement will upgrade their house with extra room.One child per room. They can get up to a max of a five room flat.
If they give birth to a twin, it will be considered as two children.
It solve the problem, of having no space for children.
I mentioned before.
If they offer 1 million dollars for every child conceived, everybody will be taking leave from work immediately to make babies.
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Originally posted by mancha:
War is a good way to reduce the population. But the trouble with war is that healthy strong men get wasted, and the skinny weakling stay back and produce more more weaklings. This is why we are getting SNAGs, homosexual, metrosexual, boy bands, and don't know what in future. I think the male will beome womens' pet in future.
And true men would be like Elton and Dave, with their child.
When the population was small and there was no television, father mother plus eight children was quite common. Now,how to house 10 people in a flat.
pls la. only the weak one will die . strong one wont die so easily.
u noe why they don wanna give birth?cos average size of HDB has been reduce 10 to 15% compare older HDB. so small how to squeeze in ppl? -
Originally posted by 韩飞官:
pls la. only the weak one will die . strong one wont die so easily.
u noe why they don wanna give birth?cos average size of HDB has been reduce 10 to 15% compare older HDB. so small how to squeeze in ppl?sleep in the bomb shelter
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there are some who rushed for dragon babies....so this would up the rate a little...
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i think the best thing is not to give baby bonus, but to give reduced tax rate. like the parents have 10% discount on 1st child, 2nd child 30%, 3rd child 50%, 4th child 60%, 5th child 80%, 6th child 100%, 7th child and so on gets $200 monthly.
must give such scheme to existing children under 18.
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Originally posted by lce:
1 way to increase Singapore birth rate is START FUCKING
llolllllllllllllllll. we need also gurantee the quality. haha -
Originally posted by charlize:
I mentioned before.
If they offer 1 million dollars for every child conceived, everybody will be taking leave from work immediately to make babies.
who is they?
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if you make more people work less than they have time for the result sought!
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people are working less nowaday, more so with so much FTs around to help out, but instead of soughting our the result, most end up in front of TV, internet, club, pub, disco...joo chiat tienanmen
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Job competition are getting damm high.
i should count myself lucky for being born in the tiger year becos no uni poly competition from china
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
Job competition are getting damm high.
i should count myself lucky for being born in the tiger year becos no uni poly competition from china
have you reproduced yet?
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Originally posted by Ah Gong:
have you reproduced yet?
no.
i am too young.
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Originally posted by Ah Gong:
have you reproduced yet?
and whats ur meaning? i am like 140 year old vampire
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take away the zero
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Had similar topic same time last year.
I proposed this solution:
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Solving the low birth rate is quite easy and well within the government's means.
( Btw, increasing the birth rate means increasing the Singaporean CHINESE birth rate, as the Malays are reproducing quite happily, thank you very much. No studying for them- too busy baby making to study ;) )
Basically you give a lot more money.
The current baby bonus is quite low- $4000 to 6000. Even Australia gives roughly twice as much.
This is what I propose.
For the next 3 years, every second baby onwards results in $500,000 being given to the parents, under the following conditions:
1. Parents are married at least 2 years.
2. Parents have degrees. (this can be modified to include poly tech diploma holders, but it's the Chinese who need to be encouraged remember?)
Now last year, about 3,000 people were eligible under the baby bonus scheme. Usually about 36,000 to 40,000 babies are born each year.
By offering to make instant half millionaires of couples, this should triple or quadruple over the 3 years to around 120,000 babies per year.
Can the Govt afford it?
Hell yes.
Say 80,000 of the 120,000 are 2nd or 3rd children (not 1st born)
80,000 x $500,000 is $40 billion per year.
Over 3 years is $120 billion.
Currently Temasek has around $200 to 300 billion.
Thus for a 3 year investment, they vastly increase the wealth of the Singaporean Chinese, they get huge increases in population in just 3 years- no need to give PR or citizenship to foreigners, and they will even increase the boys available for NS in the future.
Problem solved.
Does anyone else have any other solutions? :)