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A massive new entitlement for childcare costs, as Ivanka has advocated, is a horror. It is not the federal government’s business to be funding that. And it is not good for the government to pull more mothers away from their own childcare. Her horrid plan would pay for whatever fancy nanny’s and whatnot parents making up to $300K a year opted for.

We shall agree to disagree. Because I worked because my daughter's father died when she was three years old. I HAD to work. I did get social security death benefits but they were at that time about $600 a month. My house payment alone was $800 a month.

I HAD TO WORK....nobody was taking me away from my child.

My child care costs, which I HAD TO HAVE because likely you'd be the first to arrest and jail me had I left her home alone....were around, at that time $100 a week.

Don't you think allowing me to deduct that on my taxes is better than having me stay at home, collecting welfare or whatever, all my medical care paid for by the gubmint?

Obviously there must be limits but this nonsense about the gubmint taking mothers away from their kids is nonsense.

I think it should be a deductible and hey, we will agree to disagree on this.

This Week’s Sunday Political Shows.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House budget director Mick Mulvaney; Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.
Mulvaney shines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3s4ko99A4c

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House chief of staff Reince Priebus; Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Nancy Pelosi demands Trump tax returns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAANvQva3uo

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly; Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio.

First time I meet John Kelly, Homeland Security Secretary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AsN7qrJW3o

THIS WEEK (ABC): Attorney General Jeff Sessions; California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

Xavier Becerra defends California immigrants. It was a lousy argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYb2lpOmjHA

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kelly; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.

Dick Durbin wisdom….NOT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkLpn2mBzXo

We can agree to disagree, and of course your situation is very personal to you. It must have been tough to lose your husband and the father of your child so young like that.

It does sound like SS more than covered the cost of child care, but I can see why you would also like taxpayers to pay for it.

The simple truth is that lots of women don’t have skills above the market value of being their own children’s “babysitter”—and yes, I do still believe that that is the best babysitter most children can have. And those who have such greater skills to more than offset a hired babysitter you also think should be subsidized, though I agree to disagree with you there.