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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason I don't believe all these "I'm a woman and a Democrat and I oppose subsidized childcare" posts (which I bet are actually all from one troll), is that federal assistance for childcare is actually enormously popular, even among politically conservative voters.

"Some 78% of Republican voters say they want subsidized child care programs for working families where the typical family would pay around $45 a week, depending on their income, according to December 2020 polling conducted by First Five Years Fund (FFYF), a nonprofit that advocates for affordable early education.

An even higher share of Democratic voters (93%) support that scenario for subsidized child care, according to the poll.

A solid majority (79%) of Republican voters said they support tax credits to help working families pay for child care, and 63% said they want their member of Congress to work with Biden on child-care issues."

These "if you have kids you can stay home with them" trolls are in a tiny minority -- most Americans have kids, and most know childcare is not affordable, and most believe we as a society should subsidize it becasue otherwise people can't work. And since people working (and paying taxes) is kind of how this whole circus stays on the road, that's a problem.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-want-more-affordable-child-care-options-republican-voters-included-11619630948[/quote]

Yes, please keep sharing 2020 polls. Meanwhile 2021-2022 showed those subsidized programs were actually not popular when people realized the economic costs of inflation.

Even worse than popularity, the majority of Americans just didn't care about the programs because guess what? They didn't benefit from them.
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Voters aren’t all that enthused. Just 41% of respondents in a recent NPR/Marist poll said they support the BBB legislation, with 34% opposed and 25% unsure. Support for the bipartisan infrastructure bill Biden signed in November was 56%. That 15-point gap in support is the difference between legislation Americans want Congress to pass, and legislation they don’t.[/b]

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