Proposed "childless" tax in Russia

The Russian government is proposing to tax childless couples between the ages of 25 and 50 in an effort to reverse the dropping birthrate. It's a bad idea, as this article points out, for a number of reasons -- not least of which being that it would either punish infertile couples or, if amended to exempt them, encourage couples to seek out fake proof of infertility.
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