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It is in our society's best interests to have a healthy birth rate. Having to rely on immigration for population mainenance is not an ideal situation. If you could see farther then the end of your nose you will come to see this.
And it is not fair to only benefit those that are both working parents, stay at home parenting should be 'rewarded' as well.
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This argument has went around before, but I think the policy is poor. The premise of the plan is that we need a higher birth rate and/or we need to allow women to get back into the workforce when they have kids. I'm all for subsidizing daycare, provided the reason is that the mother re-entered the workforce. I think giving direct subsidy is appropriate in this instance - its not an either/or where its Harpers head bonus or Martins "Mega Care" facilities.