If the cost of childcare is a necessity for parents to work, then the expense should be given a tax credit as any other business expense.
When the government pre-school and childcare systems are in place, how long before They become compulsory for all?
Why should childcare providers have college credentials? In order to more adequately indoctrinate children in the way government believes is best. Parents and family are out, government is in.
Mothers are now called “breeders.” That is the future role for women in this Brave New America. Fathers have already been erased.
NOT WITH MY CHILD YOU DON’T!
MY CHILD, MY CHOICE!
Get Ready for Government-Approved Child Care
Who wants to put bureaucracies in charge of kids even before they get to kindergarten?
Given the multitrillion-dollar bundle of government interventions Mr. Biden is attempting to enact, it’s not surprising that even highly consequential items are getting lost in the legislative shuttle without serious debate.
Last week White House chief of staff Ron Klain retweeted a comment calling the emerging reconciliation bill a grab bag of “ill-designed” programs.
Mr. McManus (LA Times) notes with some understatement:
The provisions for universal prekindergarten education and federally subsidized child care are much bigger than anything the federal government has tried in those fields before. Implementing these programs, which depend on partnerships with willing state governments, may not be easy.
No it will not. Economist Casey Mulligan describes in a Journal op-ed the financial incentives that will be highly destructive to families, taxpayers, and the economy.
By adding new requirements for pre-K and child-care programs, the plan will also place extreme pressure on small, private providers of such services, including modest operations in church basements and community centers.
It should surprise no one that when government takes a larger role in child care, government providers enjoy an advantage over private ones, even when both have access to government funds. And those private providers who want to refuse government funds in order to avoid regulation will face an enormous disadvantage against well-funded government-approved competitors.
Believe it or not, not all of the funding is going to be spent wisely. Politico told the story of Alma Garcia, executive director at the Puerto Rican Community Center, a private preschool provider in Trenton who joined with a lawyer to file requests for government documents. “What they found, Garcia said, was evidence of large sums of taxpayer money being misspent on administrator salaries,” notes the Politico report.
Kudos to Ms. Garcia. Taxpayers can only wish lawmakers would show the same determination to investigate this huge costly idea before inflicting it on the whole country.
Will all of this money even provide clear educational benefits? Advocates of government-funded childhood programs often appeal to the authority of Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman of the University of Chicago. But in a 2020 interview with Gonzalo Schwarz of the Archbridge Institute, Prof. Heckman clarified:
I have never supported universal pre-school. The benefits of public preschool programs are the greatest for the most disadvantaged children. More advantaged children generally have encouraging early family lives. The “intervention” that a loving, resourceful family gives to its children has huge benefits that, unfortunately, have never been measured well. Public preschool programs can potentially compensate for the home environments of disadvantaged children. No public preschool program can provide the environments and the parental love and care of a functioning family and the lifetime benefits that ensue.
In sum, the model for the Biden policy isn’t working as advertised and a widely esteemed scholar on the topic has explained why it’s a bad idea.
Are any politicians going to take a moment to study this disaster before enacting it?
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