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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
I think you're under informed on the topic of child care.
My wife and I make over your threshold, own our house, have no debt other than a mortgage, own both our cars. We pay $1,200 a month for 3 days a week of daycare, if we did full time it would be close to $2,000 a month.
We 100% would go out for dinner more, or purchase more "want's", but with a huge chunk of income going to child care each month it just isn't in the cards. Yes we could find slightly cheaper care at a dayhome but we just weren't comfortable with that.
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I'm generally in favour of the subsidy, so let me say that. I think it's a burden on young families to have to pay so much for childcare, and I do think that it's good for the economy to have a larger working population. But I do want to ask, hopefully without getting flamed, how much the province/everyone should pay for choices that individuals make?
I'm just quoting you because you seem rational. I see people on Twitter complaining about the cost of care, the fact that they're self-employed and don't get maternity/paternity leave and how the childcare costs are not only a cost to the woman. And while I agree with some of that, and understand the sentiment, there is a point where I can't help but think to myself "well, you made some choices here, and if that costs you more money, that's on you."