Over the past few years, Japan has faced an economic crisis tied with a seriously declining birth rate and an increased aging population.
Economic analyst Morinaga Takuro suggested a novel and rather unique solution to addressing the country’s problem: taxing handsome men.
This proposition of taxing handsome men will supposedly create a way for “homely” guys to find women, get married, and have babies.
Other than the “wealth gap,” Morinaga sees the “love gap” as a fundamental factor of Japan’s declining birthrate. Therefore, he concludes that if Japan were to tax the ikemen (handsome men) and reduce the taxes of not-so-handsome men, then maybe the country’s economy would be better in a year’s time.
The proposed handsome-men tax would includes doubling the taxes of those unlikely chaps who qualify and reducing the taxes by 10-20% for those who are not so handsome. As for the judging of whether someone is handsome or not, there will be a panel of randomly selected women to decide.
The suggestion is a little bit subjective, but can this really be an effective solution? What do you think?
Jim Norris
declining birth rate and an increased aging population. I hope japan gets well soon…
Neil Copeland
That’s aEsthetically…
Thomas Owens
I have a solution. Why not institute polygamy? The birthrate would certainly increase and all men handsome or homely would be very happy!
Cat Mathis
yes and then incest would be there biggest problem.LOL
Thomas Owens
Actually Cat M, incest would not be an issue. If your statement were true, the entire world would be inbred.
David Kuwanoe
Harrison Bergeron, call your office.
David Kuwanoe
Come on… Come ON! Kurt Vonnegut reference, anyone?
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Sheena Shrine
not bad
Thomas Owens
Actually Cat M, incest would not be an issue. If your statement were true, the entire world would be inbred.
Thomas Owens
They could import more Koreans.