It's exactly 250 € per child. If you are sustaining your life expenses yourself, it's just a small fraction of your tax money you get back. Fake asylum seekrs don't pay anything, hey just get support and procreate. They are a financial net negative for the society.

The system as is is encouraging the wrong kind of children, where children are assets for non-working, and a liability for working people.

First thing I would do to fix this is to remove child support handouts in cash. I would make it a tax credit instead, so only people who do productive work and pay taxes would get tax benefits.

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BriggyDwiggs42 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

“Get government benefits and mooch off the dole” just doesn’t sound like a realistic portrayal of an asylum seeker, whether real or just for economic opportunity. Germany might be different, but I know in America all our immigrants are crazy hardworking.

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4gotunameagain 4 days ago | parent [-]

In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism.

Here (EU) in many countries it is possible to not work and survive, with varying levels of compromise

	▲	staringback 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism. Spoken like a true European who has never lived in the United States

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4gotunameagain 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are not wrong there, but let me remind you that Germany has had a fertility rate lower than replacement since 1970. I don't think disincentivising anyone would be the way to go.

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GuinansEyebrows 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> the wrong kind of children

this is a disturbing phrase