Commentary The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that births in the USA reached another historic low in 2020. For the sixth consecutive year, the birth rate dropped—this time by 4 percent. The average annual drop in the five previous years was 2 percent. The rate at which American women are having babies is way below the rate necessary to keep the population steady-state—that is, for the population not to shrink. A steady-state population requires a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman. In 2020, it was 1.64. Needless to say, for politicians, there is no problem that does not have a government solution, and the birth dearth is no exception. Both President Joe Biden and Sen. Mitt Romney have plans for bolstering American families. The president’s American Families Plan proposes to spend a modest $1.8 trillion. Romney is pitching his Family Security Act, which proposes per-child government …