A prominent Russian politician has supported the introduction of a tax on citizens who refuse to have children. The idea was first floated by the country’s ‘Council of Mothers’ as a means to solve the country’s demographic crisis.
Speaking to the news agency ‘Moscow,’ Tamara Pletnyova, a Communist Party MP and the chair of the parliamentary Committee on Family, Women, and Children, argued that “those who don’t want to have children should be taxed.” She added that those medically unable to do so and those no longer of reproductive age should be exempted.
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