• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    This isn’t even a bad idea on it’s face. Child care is labor and taking care of your own kids shouldn’t be considered any less of a job than taking care of other people’s kids.

    But like so much else in modern American politics, they’re always a hard ceiling on how much they want to spend for domestic benefits. So we get means testing and welfare cliffs and robbing Peter to pay Paul, as we dump a cool $300B into Iran and another $1T into tax cuts.