Posted on 09/13/2016 1:40:15 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
Donald Trump will formally unveil his childcare and maternity plan with his daughter, Ivanka Trump, later today. The issue has become a signature issue for Ivanka Trump, who spoke fervently about the topic during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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>> “Why not have a first class nursery at the job site and allow the mother extra breaks?” <<
Why not just have a strong enough economy so that no mother needs to work?
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Good point.
Also a good point.
Spending 5 trillion on wars is ok though
I fully intend to vote for Mr. Trump but am under no illusion that he is anything but a Scoop Jackson-Sam Nunn-Ed Koch New York Democrat. Which, frankly, makes him the far superior choice compared to a crypto-Muslim Communist like Obama or an unindicted not-so-crypto-brain-damaged-lesbian-Marxist like Hillary.
I thought there were rules here that said you had to support Trump.
Most companies have this anyway. 3 months is standard in many corporate environments. This is a low risk way for Trump to appeal to women. Of course, the knee jerkers on here will decry Trump for being a liberal and that this isn’t conservative. This is a small concession in order to win the larger war. I would much rather have Trump champion an effort like this if it nets him a small percentage of women voters that may provide the difference in a close election, than to have the alternative which everyone knows will be a socialistic disaster.
Are you claiming 6 weeks maternity leave every year for thirty years?
Just asking.
Some people see more Big Government as the only solution to every conceivable problem. Big Government did not make America great; more Big Government will not make America great again.
I've said for over a year that he is a Truman Democrat, which in the real world of today is about as conservative as it gets. If you want Edmund Burke, you'll have to channel him the way Hillary channels Eleanor.
Before everyone gets their panties in a wad and starts to hyperventilate-many of the insurance policies offered to employees of companies have included 4-6 weeks of maternity leave for a long time-I took advantage of it when I had my cub-more years ago than I want to admit-my monthly premiums covered it, so I used it-insurance premiums are paid by everyone in a risk pool-and everyone in that pool who pays premiums can use it the same way as anyone else-it isn’t “free”, and the employer did not pay-the insured person was compensated by the insurance carrier, just like with workers comp does for an injury...
Can't have that ... people might start to think that children belong to their parents, not to Big Government.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for either intrastate commerce or maternity leave purposes, constitutionally low-information Team Trump is blindly going down the wrongly path with this maternity leave plan imo.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Consider that if Trump worked with state lawmakers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, that each state would be able to find funding to establish its own maternity leave program.
Otherwise, if the states want a national maternity leave program, then Trump needs to do the following. He needs to start promising a maternity leave amendment to the Constitution at this time, just as FDR should have done before blindly leading low-information Congress to establish FDR’s unconstitutional “New Deal” programs.
And if Trump doesn’t start working with the states to politically force the corrupt Washington cartel to surrender 10th Amendment-protected state powers that the feds have stolen from the states back to the states, then it is only a matter of time before patriots are under the thumb of corrupt Congress working in cahoots with another lawless president.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs.
Trump’s maternity leave plan, if not amended to the Constitution, would just add to existing federal interference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
No, obviously only for the year a family has a baby would the Feds require that companies provide paid maternity leave for their employees.
I think this is a personal issue with is daughter he is fighting for. Plus getting out ahead of Clinton with women voters. Although I can do without this, with everything else Trump is going to accomplish it’s no big deal. He is gonna find lots of ways to cut spending and help businesses.
I thought this is what socialists were for. This is totally anti business, anti free enterprise. What the heck is going on here?
You are probably talking about “short term disability” coverage?
I’m OK with it as a business guy.
Teachers have 16 weeks off to start with.
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