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That's the same problem with pretty much all government programs. A recent example that has affected me is the childcare subsidy brought in by the federal gover
by snapplebobapple 4y ago
That's the same problem with pretty much all government programs. A recent example that has affected me is the childcare subsidy brought in by the federal government here in Canada. It was supposed to be an extra 300-900 a month to make childcare cost 10 dollars a day. Instead it has became a large bureaucracy directly ruining an ok private system that existed previously by driving up costs substantially everywhere and making the experience much worse for my kids via spurious regulation. Specifically my day home now charges 70 dollars more a month to cover the onerous additional paperwork and filing requirements of the program (I don't blame them, given the extra work I would have expected more of a cost increase), my day home had to remove perfectly fine play equipment from the backyard because it was 1800 dollar Costco play equipment rather than the multi hundred thousand dollar professional public park grade stuff, and there are a substantial number of additional bureaucrats employed by my government making more and more busy work for everyone, which may ruin the much better day home style care system in favor of large institutional day cares (up to six kids, one care giver that stays constant vs 20+ kids and a string of day care workers that can and does change regularly). If they had just given the money to the parents and kept the existing regulatory regime things would have been better, instead the government made it worse.
- zapdrive 4y ago[flagged]
- snapplebobapple 4y agoYah, it's kind of embarrassing that the second half of the 20th century was a story of electing and then recovering from electing a trudeau and we were dumb enough to do it all again making that the main theme of the first half of the 21st century as well.
- soperj 4y agoHe gets less than a 1/3 of the actual voters. Way less than a 1/3 of people who are eligible to vote, and less of the popular vote of the conservatives in the last election. The voting system is flawed. He knew that and actually ran on changing it, and then !!surprise!! didn't change a thing.
- darrylb42 4y agoThe daycare my kids go to reduced rates. Maybe it is big enough that the paper work is not a big deal. The new subsidized daycare made things cheaper for everyone I know.
- snapplebobapple 4y agooverall my rate is technically reduced because I get 300 subsidy but pay 70 more. The quality of service has gone down too because of the removal of perfectly good amenities.
- rhaway84773 4y agoThe quality of service in North America has gone down across nearly every service, whether wholly governmental, or wholly private, since the pandemic. It’s very likely the quality of service is heavily affected by the same general forces. In addition to that, any effort which greatly increases access to services to a broader spectrum of people will usually lead to a short term reduction of quality as the supply catches up with the new demand. A logical solution to this would be to phase in the demand, but unfortunately it’s not politically viable at all (politicians of all stripes want to be credited for the changes they make, and phasing it in over a period of time means the costs impact the budget almost immediately, but the benefits take time to filter through, which will likely be a political disaster).
- xen2xen1 4y agoEveryone, everywhere is new.