Daycare? That is YOUR choice to pay that absurd $10k a year. Don't want to spend that money? Raise your own kids at home instead of demanding someone else pay for it instead
USA is not special. If every other developed nation can do this, there's no reason the US can't.
Another example of boosting the middle class is to subsidize day care. Not having to spend 10k/year on day care means there's an extra 10k/year to stimulate the economy.
So now you're advocating for unions and higher wages? Fascinating.
Daycare? That is YOUR choice to pay that absurd $10k a year. Don't want to spend that money? Raise your own kids at home instead of demanding someone else pay for it instead
Not all rational plans work out. Sometimes breadwinners die. Sometimes they abandon. The point of a social safety net is that everyone knows that when life screws them over they'll be able to pull themselves back up rather than ending up in poverty with malnourished kids who then don't reach their potential and have even MORE trouble pulling themselves up.Yeah no shit. Having kids is a personal decision and should be met with personal responsibility.
Yeah, single mother, just stay home and raise your own kids while simultaneously getting an MBA and moving to a new city so you can pull yourself up to the top 1% by hard work, that's a realistic policy expectation!
Or single father, whatever. It's incredibly naive and willfully ignorant to pretend that all families will have stable, mutually supportive parents. Sometimes parents die - go talk to the many widows of recent wars. Sometimes parents become financial liabilities at no fault of either of them - go talk to the wives of veterans with PTSD and ongoing medical issues. Sometimes men abandon their families, and sometimes women abandon theirs, at no fault to the other. But I guess a woman should take "personal responsibility" and stick with an abusive or negligent husband because otherwise she'll fall into poverty and not be able to take care of her kids. There's compassionate conservatism for you.OH WOW. I guess all those decades of tearing down the worth of a man and a husband don't have the benefits to society that the extreme feminist movement thought. :awe:
Or single father, whatever. It's incredibly naive and willfully ignorant to pretend that all families will have stable, mutually supportive parents. Sometimes parents die - go talk to the many widows of recent wars. Sometimes parents become financial liabilities at no fault of either of them - go talk to the wives of veterans with PTSD and ongoing medical issues.
You're right. We should use the American model of doing things. Half of your disposable income goes to health insurance and the other half goes to day care. w00t for having no spendable cash! Nothing stimulates the economy more than living paycheck to paycheck and not being able to buy anything.
Not having to pay for either of those, a lot of my money goes directly into job creation. Buying stuff on amazon creates good paying jobs in warehousing and transportation. Buying a car whenever I feel like it creates high paying jobs in manufacturing. When money stays in the hands of rich people, it doesn't accomplish those things. Guys like Romney don't spend their money; they save it and stash it away. How does stashing it away create jobs? How does holding millions of dollars in foreign accounts create jobs?
The point of a social safety net is that everyone knows that when life screws them over they'll be able to pull themselves back up
Can you please get that memo to all the people using the net as a blanket?
I'll take a new bentley with my free healthcare and daycare. a black on black continental GT; afterall it will stimulate the economy and I need a way to get my kid to daycare
I make damn good money. Guess what I had for dinner tonight? Rice, beans, greens and ham hock. Well be eating off this for the week.
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Ever consider that people like you ARE the problem?
Yes. How dare I provide for myself and save money. The audacity of it all.
Another example of boosting the middle class is to subsidize day care. Not having to spend 10k/year on day care means there's an extra 10k/year to stimulate the economy.
Yeah, single mother, just stay home and raise your own kids while simultaneously getting an MBA and moving to a new city so you can pull yourself up to the top 1% by hard work, that's a realistic policy expectation!
Not all rational plans work out. Sometimes breadwinners die. Sometimes they abandon. The point of a social safety net is that everyone knows that when life screws them over they'll be able to pull themselves back up rather than ending up in poverty with malnourished kids who then don't reach their potential and have even MORE trouble pulling themselves up.
And just how do you think this theft of money is going to go to the middle class?
Yeah, all those 1%er veterans' widows. Support our troops, as long as it doesn't cost us money or cut into our preconceived political fantasies.
Except you're forcing companies to run at a higher cost. Companies being more efficient helps the economy more than forcing them to be more inefficient.This is one thing I can gladly support liberals on: Tax penalties for outsourcing. And it should be a substantial one as well. There isn't a single ounce of this that wouldn't help the economy (correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to here any opposing sides that I am missing or don't know of)
Edited my post to include middle/lower class. You're all right. I really meant that the tax revenue ends up in the hands of both the middle and lower class.