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Hungary now gives women $35,000 after they marry -- free money if they have three kids. Women can become tax-free for LIFE if they have four children. (If no children are produced, it’s a low interest loan.) What do you think? Should the U.S. do something like this to boost marriage, encourage stable families and reverse our declining birthrate?

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Like most advanced countries Hungary struggles with the declining birth rate. In America, for perspective, the average woman has 1.7 children. That's the lowest figure we've ever had in our history. In Hungary the number is even lower than that: fewer than 1.5 children per family.

Hungary has lost more than half a million people in the past 30 years. At this rate, unless something changes dramatically, there will be no more Hungarians.

The neo liberals who run the European Union and every think tank in Washington strongly agree on what Hungary should do to fix the problem: Give up. Instead of helping the native population to have more children, the Hungarian government they say should import a replacement population from the Third World. That's the George Soros solution.

But Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban has a different idea.

Instead of abandoning Hungary's young people to the hard edged libertarianism of Soros and the Clinton Foundation, Orban has decided to affirmatively help Hungarian families grow. Orban’s government is giving young women $35,000 low interest loans when they get married for the first time. If these women have three children with their husbands the loans are forgiven completely.

If they have a fourth child they're exempt from income taxes for the rest of their lives.

Hungary doesn't just have parental leave. Grandparents can take time off to help after the birth of a grandchild.

Everything about these policies is a good idea. They don't just help people have the children they want to have. They encourage the creation of healthy families.

The Hungarian government wants to help people get married, stay married to the same person, and remain close to their extended families. It gives the biggest rewards to middle class families, the very groups struggling most to balance career finances and children in the modern age.

In other words Hungary's leaders actually care about making sure their own people thrive. Instead of promising the nation's wealth every illegal immigrant from the Third World, they're using tax dollars to uplift their own people. Imagine that.

Here's the least surprising part of it all. People absolutely love it. And why wouldn't they. Viktor Orban's government just won its third landslide election victory in a row. The lessons are so obvious that you have to wonder why isn't anyone trying that here.

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