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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
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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I hear you about the parent's choice, but what about the child's choice? They didn't ask to be brought into the world, and they are the ones that will ultimately suffer, and perpetuate the systemic and cultural issues that we have all been discussing. At some point we have to collectively step-in and help these young people become contributing members of our society, rather than allowing them to fall into the trap their parents (and the generations before) have set up for them.
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Oh, dear...please, let's not go down this line of discussion again.
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I agree. You and I discussed that at length in this very thread. But it is relevant. We need money to live. It has replaced basic needs as the medium of exchange we need to purchase our basic needs. So you see a bunch of people who have earned their status, but I see a bunch of people sitting on piles of food and homes and clothes, more than they could ever need or use for themselves, while others literally starve. How is that right? How can people in those situations feel OK about being that knowing what goes on at the bottom? Do they not know, or not care?