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Of course if jobs were required to pay livable wages it would be possible for one of the parents to not work as an option and care for the child when it's young as was done in the past when a single job could provide a middle class lifestyle. At some point this nation needs to make a decision that there are more important things than money for the wealthy and working endless hours.
Disagree with this. 50k is a completely arbitrary income limit, and this gives people an incentive not to increase their income. Also the tax code already too heavily incentivizes child care. As a person with no children yet, I’m sick of paying for everyone else’s kids.
I agree with this...except I think it either needs to be a benefit for everyone or no one. With the way things are headed you'd be much better off not going to college, getting a job making 45k, collecting your free health care, and now free childcare. Compare to the guy paying 1k in student loan debt making 65k a year and 1k a month for health insurance and 1k a month to have his kid attend a daycare.
Disagree with this. 50k is a completely arbitrary income limit, and this gives people an incentive not to increase their income. Also the tax code already too heavily incentivizes child care. As a person with no children yet, I’m sick of paying for everyone else’s kids.
Then you should decline social security and medicare when you get old because everyone else’s kids will be paying for yours.
I agree with this...except I think it either needs to be a benefit for everyone or no one. With the way things are headed you'd be much better off not going to college, getting a job making 45k, collecting your free health care, and now free childcare. Compare to the guy paying 1k in student loan debt making 65k a year and 1k a month for health insurance and 1k a month to have his kid attend a daycare.
Poor public policy.
You lack imagination. To qualify for child care you would need to be working. You think someone will turn down a promotion and pay raise because they lose child care money? And only people with no kids have student loans?
I can just imagine the outrageous cost to the people who actually had to pay for it just like Obamacare caused Premiums to go up 250% and deductibles to triple just to cover the freebies of others.
You lack imagination. To qualify for child care you would need to be working. You think someone will turn down a promotion and pay raise because they lose child care money? And only people with no kids have student loans?
Yes. People def would turn down a raise if it put them over the income threshhold and in turn cost them money.
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