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Old 12-14-2009, 11:37 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by hulkrogan View Post
And then the world economy goes completely in the pooper with a smaller tax base to maintain all of the existing infrastructure, and the inevitable shrinking of personal wealth.

$ wins. Every time.
Rich countries have a very low birth rate. Poor countries have a very high birth rate.

Typically as a country's government puts in programs such as pensions, unemployment insurance and welfare, the birth rate plummets.
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