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Old 11-21-2012, 12:23 AM   #235
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Originally Posted by Jacks View Post
It works great in Quebec with 8 billion in transfer payments but on a nation wide basis it would be just another massive bloated social program. There is only one taxpayer. A tax break for middle income earners who have daycare aged children and big tax increase for everyone else in the middle class.
That's certainly possible. There are other problems with the idea as well, including the administrative nightmare of ensuring compliance with safety standards across a myriad of newly government-run facilities, not to mention the litigation risk of acting in loco parentis to small children while employing some of the lowest wage-earners in our economy.

On balance, it's hard to see how it could work--historically the federal government has been really bad at administering these sorts of programs.
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