出生率低 日学者建议对帅哥征税 以提高出生率

日学者建议对帅哥征税 以提高出生率  

As part of the end of year windup
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper has created a Facebook page where readers can discuss solutions to various issues facing Japan. The current topic of debate is the declining birthrate.
Takuro Morinaga
an economic analyst
weighed in with this controversial proposal: “If we levied a ‘handsome tax‘ on good-looking guys
that would serve to correct a little bit of the unfairness in dating
making it easier for homely guys to find a partner and the number of marriages would increase.”
I bet the ladies at the local tax office are all for it.
我打赌地方税务局的女士们会完全赞成这个提议。
Morinaga goes on to say
“There’s a lot of discussion about ine disparity
but no one is talking about attractiveness disparity. Good-looking guys get an insane amount of women. At one time
some of them are dating over a 100 women. The result is that women are converging around one type of guy.”
He goes on to point out the prevalence of the “lady-killer” in popular culture as evidence that good-looking guys do better with the fairer sex.
In matters of love
he believes there are three ponents: physical attraction
money
and munication
the most important of these currently being physical attraction. “No matter how many singles’ events a homely man goes to
all the attention ends up on the good-looking guys. Since we cannot change how people look
a redistribution must be made in the money ponent to even the playing field.”
Morinaga suggests doubling the ine tax on good-looking guys while reducing the tax rate for homely guys by 10-20 percent. Currently
the highest rate of ine tax in Japan is 40 percent
so this would mean high-earning
good-looking fellows are in for an 80 percent ine tax rate. Ouch.
The real reason for the declining birthrate
according to this radical saviour
is the rise in the number of unmarried people
so he feels that increasing the number of marriages should be the most urgent objective. Measures that make it easier for people to have and raise children – such as increasing maternity and paternity leave – are aimed at people who already have kids
and Morinaga doesn’t think they will do anything to raise the birthrate.