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My views on Singapore’s low birth rate
By SG Wealth Builder  •  May 11, 2012
In my previous post, "Sentiments of a Singaporean", one of my readers pointed out whether it is fair to burden taxpayers who are single and do not have children with heavy costs of baby bonuses. Actually before he responded, I already knew where he is coming from. It is human nature to feel sour grape seeing others who have babies receiving monies from the government while you are ineligible . Deep in my heart, I believe this is one reason why policy-makers are so reluctant to give more monies to citizen who are willing to give birth. This is because most of the policy-makers could be either past the child-bearing age or are single and missed the boat to get married. Henceforth, it is perfectly natural that they might feel jealous having to give monies to citizen who are entitled to it. After all, they themselves don't benefit from it, while ......
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