Big picture folks. Let's win the WH first, then we can debate and pressure our Congresscritters to modify or block this.
It doesn’t really matter because Congress is never going to put this proposal on Trump’s desk to sign. It’s a great talking point for the presidential campaign, though.
He’s going after any and all fringe Democrats and independents in general. This reaches out to moms, wives, husbands, dads everywhere regardless of political affiliation.
What I like about this - it will drive the left nuts. These are supposedly liberal Democrat ideas. In the grand scheme, it’s fairly low cost and isn’t some “massive” government handout. It is targeted at people that work too, so if there was a topic to use to directly steal voters from Hillary this is a good one. It a very smart political move.
I can already see the heads exploding on CNN :)
How is it unconstitutional?
A savings account for elder care is an incentive for adult children to take care of their parents for a longer period of time instead of warehousing them at government expense. Allowing interest-bearing tuition savings that run 18 years (18K before interest) reduces the demand for student loans - more expense reduction. I’m pretty sure part of child care can be deducted already, but welfare offices still administer the paying of a lot of childcare for working poor (miles of monthly paperwork) - we get rid of that function and submit the documentation with the tax return. Six weeks PAID maternity leave is about time and pro-life. It eliminates a woman getting unpaid leave, to return only to be pushed out by a company at a time when she desperately needs the income. I don’t see this plan as a giveaway because the DCAs require real money investment (individual responsibility) on a long-term basis to get the gain. Don’t invest - no gain.
SO, the paid leave will be provided by the unemployment insurance that is partially funded by the employer for each employee as mandated by law.........
I don't have a problem with that considering I spent my life in a manufacturing environment in Detroit at a time when employees were getting temporary layoffs every few weeks and collecting unemployment.........