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LOL i've never wanted kids, but car seats have literally never once been a factor in that decision

every fucking day this guy makes himself look worse than all the hillbillies he shat on for a whole book

If Mr Venture Capital thinks a $100 bassinet car seat combo is expensive for middle class parents, he should see what diapers or childcare costs.

If a car seat is keeping him from knocking up his wife then he is doing something very, very wrong. From what I've heard about this guy and furniture though, I can't say I'm really surprised.

Of course Vance is has a weird thing with car seats. His attraction to children’s furniture is probably his deepest, darkest secret. IKEA meets Epstein’s island.

Yes, it's the thought of paying for a car seat that is preventing me from having a kid.

I mean, I can handle the crushing weight of student loans, the housing costs that keep going up, wages stagnating, having shitty insurance that makes me dread even small medical costs, and making ends meet by subjecting myself to an endless grind that leaves me barely enough time to contemplate kids let alone raising them. That's all just normal, no need for concern. But a car seat? How the fuck am I supposed to pay for that?

What a weird take

Most Americans are having enough kids. Just not white Americans. It's amazing how great replacement theory is just run-of-the-mill republican ideology these days.

Bro just wants a couch in cars lmao

Weird asshole.

Noted. Vance would’ve had 100,000 more kids if he wasn’t banging car seats too.

My wife and I both work. She has a demanding stressful job (that she loves, mind you) that isn't exactly conducive to pumping. So she breastfed as long as she could and then switched to formula. Let me tell you... Car seats aren't shit compared to buying formula and diapers these days. I'd have to double-check but formula alone is somewhere around $300-400/mo...

This guy's past is just the gift that keeps on giving. It's almost like the people that vetted him were...perhaps less than competent?

Ask him what are his sources and if he’s still friends with his college futon?

"American families aren't having enough children. I think there's evidence that some of the things that we're doing to parents is driving down the number of children that American families are having," Vance says in the video.

"In particular, there's evidence that the car seat rules that we've imposed, which of course I want kids to drive in car seats, have driven down the number of babies born in this country by over 100,000. So as we think about how to make kids safe here, I think we should do it in a way that's accommodating to American families."

The weird part is "things that we're doing to parents". Guy want no rules, no safety standards, nothing. Libertarian weirdo.

The cost of having a child in the United States, depending on where you live, is roughly $1,500-3,000 per month. Kids are basically a luxury-lifestyle accessory at this point.

Carseats aren't really that much of a cost compared to everything else.

I mean, they deter people from having children go headfirst through the windshield.

which of course I want kids to drive in car seats

Words are hard. I'm looking forward to Tuesday night.

I could never put a finger on it, but kids felt like an expensive 18 year punishment is because of child seats. The seats for high school aged kids are a nightmare.