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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
You're simply arguing the opposite side of the coin; that is, that daycare is preferential to home care thus we should provide incentives to families to prompt them away from taking care of their own children and provide other services to the economy.
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He's not arguing that daycare is preferential to home care. He's arguing that increased workforce participation is better for the economy, and subsidized daycare enables increased workforce participation. From an
economic perspective, it's absolutely true that households with two working parents are preferable to single-income households. Whether it's also true from a
child-raising perspective, and if having a stay-at-home parent provides enough benefit to society that it outweighs the economic penalty of having a smaller workforce (and therefore justifies this tax break), I cannot say.