One less mouth to feed is one less mouth to feed.
Cal Thomas takes not so much the long as the hail-mary view of the necessary economic stimulus:
In an interview over the weekend with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the proposed “hundreds of millions of dollars” earmarked in the “stimulus” package for contraceptive services will help the economy. But wait. Won’t fewer people mean fewer taxpayers?
We have already reduced the number of taxpayers by an estimated 50 million since abortion became legal in 1973. If we had 50 million more people paying taxes, would we be in our current budget malaise? People mean taxes and since taxes are what Democrats are about, they are harming the economy by advocating fewer people through abortion and contraception.
In addition to being willfully stupid on the ostensible subject (a birth deferred is not a birth deleted; really, this is elementary), on the specific subject of the “hundreds of millions of dollars” earmarked in the “stimulus” package, Thomas—as you could probably tell from his overly judicious use of quotation marks—is lying through his shiny white teeth.
