@seanmdav I have a package sitting there "Delay in shipping. You won't be charged until it ships." Guess who's been charged and I'm still waiting for it to ship. I can't cancel because it's "being prepared for shipment". Amazon is getting ridiculous.
Look, I want people to get married and have babies. I want more moms to be able to stay home with their kiddos. Incredibly so. The collapse of that structure has been so detrimental, and I appreciate the Trump admin’s intentions behind trying to fix it.
But I don’t want my or anyone else’s ability to raise my own kids, buy my groceries, or pay my bills to depend on a monthly government check paid for by someone else’s work. That’s always been a horrid idea and it doesn’t stop being one just because “my side” suggests it for a cause I find appealing. Nor should our money be going to other people’s daycare bills, I might add.
We should incentivize having kids and raising them. But not through government-forced wealth redistribution. Never through that.
Why is this so hard to figure out? Stop pandering and help everyone across the board. Cutting wasteful spending (sending billions to other countries is a good place to start) and cutting taxes helps everyone.
Let me reframe the Trump/Vance child care credit argument for you in simple economic terms.
Option 1) The government cuts my taxes by $9,000. I keep the $9,000 and my family is benefitted by the whole amount.
Option 2) The government gives a $9,000 credit to "stay-at-home moms." In order to give that credit, the government has to take approximately $19,000 dollars from taxpayers to pay for administration and distribution of the funds, and for the 50% of funds (conservatively estimated) that will go toward fraud and waste.
This is a no-brainer. End the government handouts. Reduce taxes, cut spending, prosecute fraud, let the free market work.