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    22 hours ago

    That pretty much happens every time any government tries to introduce an “economy kickstart benefit”.

    See for example, Hungary. The government introduced “CSOK” a few years back, which was basically a “start your family” free money kit - if you marry and have X kids within Y years of taking part in this program, you get to keep the money for free, no need to pay it back, otherwise it turns into a loan (with sub-market rates mind you so it’s worth taking even if you don’t want kids).

    The amount per family was fixed, at IIRC 20 million HUF, or around $60k USD.

    Guess what happened?

    Property prices shot up, practically overnight, by that amount.