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Originally Posted by MattyC
Out of family planning, access to higher education and subsidized child care, which do you disagree with and why?
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I would likely be against subsidized child care because I do not agree with tax dollars going to fund (or support) one's personal choices. It is the same reason that I am against the mortgage interest tax deduction, the tax deduction for charitable donations, and so on.
Now, if the subsidized child care was given privately, through one's employer or in some other manner, that might be a different matter.
But if someone wants to have children, that's fine, and that's their personal choice. But, in making that choice to have a child, I believe that the parents should first be fully capable of completely and totally supporting the child through its entire life up to adulthood without looking to the government for financial assistance.
[And before someone takes this statement to the extreme, I am not suggesting that parents should be the only people who fund the public education system or the like]
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Originally Posted by MattyC
Just because they will be funded by the wealth of people who don't need a significant proportion of it anyways?
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Oh, dear...please, let's not go down this line of discussion again.