A cleaning service is not necessary for most people. (Admittedly, "most" = me in this case, but do you have a better argument?) And even if it were necessary,

A cleaning service is not necessary for most people. (Admittedly, "most" = me in this case, but do you have a better argument?) And even if it were necessary, I don't see why it should be tax-subsidized. Lots of true necessities, like food, aren't. To contest your second point, people should work where they are most productive, and the government shouldn't deliberately subsidize inefficiencies. Taking care of kids is work, just like working at a retail store or writing novels, and the government shouldn't subsidize one or the other.