"Like I said, a prophet like that would be asked to prove his commands.
PARENT LICENSING
"I guess that brings us to our parent licensing. Anyone can have a child but the state requires that both parents are responsible for his upbringing and education. As I just mentioned, that includes their 8 to 12 or more years of college education. The parents will pay about 75% of the education costs. Once the child is in the workforce 20% of his gross wages go to paying back half of what the parents had spent on his or her education from preschool through graduate school. The child is responsible for these payments during the first 10 years of his employment. It normally amounts to about 30% of what the parents actually paid."
-“And what if the parents don't pay?”
“Well, most parents take out insurance to cover the possibility that they cannot meet their financial responsibilities. However if they don't prepare for these eventualities, as responsible citizens should, one parent will be required to go to prison. The parents can alternate this prison time or one can spend the whole time. In prison, as in life, you are responsible for your own maintenance. This can be rather expensive. Once you have paid for your maintenance, the rest of the money goes to what you owe the government for your child's education. I'll get more into that in a while. I want to talk about our prisons later.
"I have to admit that we have debated along with some other countries how much to tax for a child license. There is the cost of the carbon footprint for the child and his or her progeny, the cost of desalinating water for an additional being, the increased cost of growing food hydroponically. If we're going to be responsible we really should be concerned about future costs to the world because of our children.”
-"I have heard a price of about $800 per year per person to get rid of carbon and other negatives that they produce. But I can't see how we would actually get rid of the carbon. You can't have 7 billion people buying parts of a Brazilian rain forest to take care of the carbon they produce. Then when the tree falls down and rots or is burned, the carbon escapes again. So who pays the tax then?"
-"The economy has a lot to do with family size. When the recession hit in 2008 many couples decided to be childless or to have only one child. In fact one in five families now in the US have only one child. On the other side of the world, in China, economic progress reduced the desires for more than one child. It is ironic that in China they have changed rapidly from Mao’s idea that ‘of all the things in the world, people are the most precious.’ It wasn’t long after that a voluntary program reduced the fertility rate of Chinese women from 5.9 to 2.9. Then the one child policy was implemented and eventually made a law and the fertility rate dropped to about 1.6. But Tyler, I would assume you have to be pretty rich in your country to have a child."