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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pay teachers and childcare workers more. They can make almost as much working in fast food but are responsible for the health, safety, and education of your children.[/quote]

Agree this is a core problem- but where would the money come from?[/quote]

From the families who need childcare.  Now, personally, I think childcare should be subsidized by the government, on a sliding scale for all families making less than 250K a year (and free for those making under about 100K) for up to 2 kids.  [b]And I think that if a parent decides to stay home, they should get the amount that they would be subsidized if they used outside childcare.[/b]  But until then, parents have to decide if they can afford to pay enough to find reliable childcare.  [/quote]

LOL and this is why social welfare is just a never happening concept. You want to PAY stay at home moms to take care of their own children? What's to stop someone from having 9 kids and never working for 20 years.

You want to have kids, you pay for their care yourself until pre-k/kindergarten. Period.[/quote]

I have to agree that this is crazy.  People who SAH already aren’t paying taxes on their labor.  
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... you're so close.

No one pays taxes on their labor. We pay taxes on income. You are acknowledging that SAHPs are performing labor, but the conclusion you are drawing is that rather than compensate them for that labor, we force them to go do other labor somewhere else so that we can tax them on that, and then pay another person as little as humanly possible to care for their child so that we can tax that labor?

Lemme guess. You're a "fiscal conservative" who just cares about the budget deficit?[/quote]

They are performing labor for their husband/spouses. Tell them to do what Japanese women do and have the company deposit the working spouse's paycheck directly under the spouses control. Or *gasp* have a conversation with your husband and have him split his paycheck 60/40 with you.

The rest of the country is not responsible for your decision to not work outside of the home.

- a Democrat[/quote]

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