BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Hungary’s prime minister said Thursday that economic incentives for families, not immigration, are the answer to low birth rates and a decreasing population.
Speaking at a government-organized conference on demography, Prime Minister Viktor Orban also said that an upturn in Hungary’s – and possibly Europe’s – low birth rates may be achieved when having children becomes economically more beneficial to families than not having them.
Orban said that higher living standards as a result of having children had to be felt straightaway – “not in the sense that when you’re old your child will care for you, but here and now, immediately.”
“This is the turning point for the Hungarian family support system, but we are not there yet,” Orban said. “Years of persistent work are needed.”
Also attending the event were Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who spoke about their countries’ demographic challenges and praised Orban’s family policy measures. They include tax breaks for families with more than one child, the construction of more nurseries, family housing subsidies and a life-long income tax exemption for women with at least four children.
Read the rest at the link. Orban is doing it right! Protecting families, encouraging children, trying to preserve his nation for what it is. We need more leaders like this in the world. I could go for a tax beak like that, too!
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