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Poland’s president signs new zero income tax law for parents with two children
From LifeSiteNews
Polish president Karol Nawrocki presented the new law as a way to help families financially and encourage a higher birth rate.
Poland’s president has signed into law the cancellation of personal income tax for parents who are raising two or more children, in an effort to support and encourage families and boost the economy.
The newly enacted bill removes the income tax obligation for families earning up to 140,000 zloty (€32,973, or $38,486) a year. The average Polish family is expected to keep in pocket an extra 1,000 zloty (€235 or $274) per month as a result of the tax break.
Polish president Karol Nawrocki, who was sworn into office in August, presented the bill before it was approved by Parliament as a means to financially help families as well as encourage a sustainable birth rate in a country suffering, like most others, from birth rate decline.
“Financial resources must be found for Polish families,” said Nawrocki while presenting the bill. He highlighted the fact that Poland is suffering from a birth rate crisis. Last year, the number of births in Poland fell to a new low. Poland’s birth rate is one of the lowest in the world, at 1.1 by 2024, far below replacement rate. Only eight countries have a birth rate lower than Poland’s according to the Population Reference Bureau.
Public consultations about the law before its passage found that the tax break is very popular among Poles. About 76 percent of respondents said the law was “definitely needed,” and only 16 percent were strongly opposed to the bill, EuroNews reported.
Demography experts such as data analyst Stephen Shaw, the creator of the documentary “Birthgap,” are skeptical about whether economic incentives can reverse the trend of population decline. He has noted that even the Roman Empire, in its later stages, enacted policies aimed at increasing birth rates, including taxing the childless.
According to Shaw, “No society in history has been known to come out of” the “spiral” of population decline.
In his film “Birthgap,” he has documented how declining birth rates in the U.S. and around the world are being driven by an “explosion” in childlessness as opposed to smaller family sizes.
From LifeSiteNews
Australia’s Northern Territory has become the first in the country to ban men claiming to be women from female prisons, after a woman was reportedly sexual assaulted by a man while incarcerated.
Australia’s Northern Territory has banned gender-confused men from women’s prisons, after women were assaulted by men while being incarcerated.
On October 13, Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro announced new policies to keep men claiming to be women out of female prisons, becoming the first territory in Australia to protect women from predatory males in jails.
“There should be no men in women’s prisons, full stop,” Finocchiaro told The Australian. “I can tell you now, here in the Northern Territory there are no blokes in women’s jails and we’re not having that here, not on my watch.”
“If you’re born a bloke, you go into a men’s prison. At the end of the day, this is really about women’s safety. It’s about women’s dignity,” she continued.
The announcement came just a few days after a female inmate revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a man pretending to be a woman while being incarcerated at an Australian prison.
Finocchiaro condemned Australia’s current polices for failing to protect women, saying, “women need to be protected, both in and outside of jail. This is not rocket science, and some people have forgotten why they’re there, and some people have made life far more complicated than it needs to be.”
“This is about people’s fundamental right to be safe. And it doesn’t need to be more complicated than that,” she continued, condemning the Labour government’s decision to prioritize “woke” ideology over women’s safety.
“It’s just absurd to think that people would be putting men equipped with male genitalia in women’s prisons,” Finocchiaro declared.
Additionally, in September, a convicted male child pedophile was placed in a female prison after claiming he was “transgender.” These two cases sparked outrage across the country as advocates called for further protections for women.
Following these two cases, the Women’s Forum Australia appealed to state premiers and territory leaders as well as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to protect female inmates from dangerous men pretending to be female.
Women’s Forum Australia CEO Rachael Wong celebrated Finocchiaro’s new policy in a post on X, writing, “NT Chief Minister @LiaFinocchiaro showing the rest of Australia’s leaders how it’s done!”
Wong condemned Australia mainstream prison policy for perpetuating “a national pattern of state-sanctioned injustice and abuse, whereby male offenders are being permitted to enter women’s prisons under the guise of gender identity.”
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a pair of high-stakes meetings next week in order to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, Trump said on Truth Social Thursday.
Trump will meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary after an initial round of negotiations between Russian advisors and U.S. diplomats led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio next week, the president said in his post. Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday to discuss the war and his conversation with Putin.
“The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined,” Trump said in his post. “President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.”
“President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” he wrote.
Putin congratulated Trump on the historic deal between Hamas and Israel, and thanked First Lady Melania Trump for her work on protecting children in Ukraine, the president said in his post.
Trump said Wednesday that India will stop buying Russian oil, a deal that the administration said was fueling the war effort in Ukraine.
The meeting will mark Putin’s first visit to any European Union member state since before the invasion of Ukraine, when he attended a summit in Germany on the subject of peace.
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