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An effective way to stop female foeticide-4
by RajivRsuman on Jul 24, 2008 09:37 PM   Permalink

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7.      Tax/Reward percentage (5% suggested above) may be increased if necessary.
8.      Other suitable modification may be done to the above formula and law should be made to implement this all over the country.

With this formula, if a person has equal number sons and daughters then he/she need not pay any male child tax or will not receive any female child reward. People having only sons or more sons than daughters are privileged, while in the opposite case (i.e. having only daughters or more daughters than sons) parents are effectively sufferers.
Son or daughter are naturally born and one can't decide the sex of the foetus (although can abort undesired one). But we can make laws so that naturally privileged people should be forced to pay more tax. Fund so generated should be spent to give relief to those who are not/less privileged due to only/more female children, but have done great service to the society by providing daughters. Parents will use the reward in the protection, education and marriage of daughters. This might develop the feeling to consider a daughter as Lakshmi rather than a problem (wealth producer in contrast to a son who will effectively become a tax multiplier).

So, law should be framed so as to reward those parents who contribute (by having more daughters than sons) to balancing the female-male ratio. And, those who deteriorate this ratio should be charged heavy tax because such people enjoy the privilege of having more

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