One of Charlie Kirk's primary platforms was to encourage young men and women to get married early and have babies. The New York Times recounted one of his final messages:
At a young women's leadership conference this summer, Mr. Kirk warned women about waiting too long to get married. He argued that their chances of finding a life partner dropped if they were still single by the time they turned 30 — a message he reiterated on Fox News just days before his death.
"I would also tell young ladies: You can always go back to your career later," he said early last week, adding "that there is a window where you primarily should pursue marriage and having children. And that is a beautiful thing."
This proposal ginned up an idea. What if the government tried to subsidize men and women to get married young, with the goal of promoting natural child conception? The subsidy would not be available to older opposite-sex couples. The subsidy would also not be available to same-sex couples, regardless of their age, who could not naturally conceive a child within that marriage. Call it the Charlie Kirk Family Bonus.
