Missouri Lawmaker Worries Allowing Abortions Will Mean We Run Out of Taxpayers
Just when you think their arguments could not possibly get any more stupid, the GOP gives us this:
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones (R) told a local radio station that he and his colleagues are focusing on restricting abortion in order to preserve the taxpaying population. “[If] we were to choose the opposite extreme and the state were not to choose to protect life, well eventually the state would run out of citizens, it would run out of taxpayers, and the state would cease to exist,” he said.
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