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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
To be honest, you can't trust them! There will always be good parents and bad parents. What they do with their own money is their business, so if they want to be bad parents on their own dime, so be it. But why should tax payers pay so that mommy can go to bingo, and daddy can go drink beer?
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While I agree with your statement in bold above, anything beyond that is where we'll have to respectfully agree to disagree I guess. For good or bad, we're all tax payers. Anything we get back
is our own dime.
Were we to evaluate every government system (at any level) based on 'if it can be abused in any way, don't do it at all' we'd have to end publicly funded health care, welfare, ei, education, really any and all programs across the board. Change the word's 'mommy' and 'daddy' to 'AISH receipient' above and you and Ralph Klien can be best of friends.
I find the no-choice Liberal plan very paternalistic:
We can raise your children in mega-care better than you can any other way.
Want them in a community run day-home? No help for you!
Want a grandparent to take them during the day? No help for you!
Want to have one parent choose to stay home to raise their own kids? No help for you!
At the end of the day, one plan puts $1,200.00 towards helping my family with child care. The other two offer me nothing, and they're still on my dime.