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"public" meaning what. Both legally and socially, caring for children is mandatory. We had a breakdown of extended family structure (aunts watching the kids fo
by humanrebar 8y ago
"public" meaning what. Both legally and socially, caring for children is mandatory.
We had a breakdown of extended family structure (aunts watching the kids for an hour or two) and neighborhoods (same but for elderly neighbors, sometimes compensated). Everyone knows child care is labor intensive. Nobody knows how to pay for it is all.
- emodendroket 8y agoAt government expense
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoWell until we run out of "other people's money" of course.
- emodendroket 8y agoNobody ever raises this concern when they increase the military budget a couple tens of billions of dollars. It's not some big secret how you'd pay for it. You'd use taxes.
- humanrebar 8y agoUniversal childcare costs a lot more than 50 billion a year.
- emodendroket 8y agoAccording to the Washington Post around $90b. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/06/the-90-billion-question-do-we-need-government-supplied-daycare/?utm_term=.2f3647422d82 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/06/the-9...
- emodendroket 8y ago(I feel like it goes without saying, but the idea that $90b for a program that would seriously improve many people's lives is unthinkable but another $50b for what is already, a few times over, the world's largest military budget, for a country facing no serious threats to its own security, is a trifle not even worth serious discussion is a false one, if you ask me).