Posted on 09/12/2025 3:56:09 PM PDT by CedarDave
Starting November 1, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham plans to make New Mexico the first state in the nation to provide no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. That means even millionaires’ children will be entitled to “free” (taxpayer-funded) daycare — all at the expense of hardworking taxpayers.
At a press conference in Santa Fe, the governor boasted that so-called “universal child care” is the “backbone” of her plan to support families. “There are so many people across the country that say [universal child care is] impossible — not impossible,” Lujan Grisham said, adding that she believes subsidizing care for all families will “lift New Mexico out of poverty.”
But the plan comes with an enormous price tag. New Mexico’s Early Childhood Education and Care Department already spends $463 million annually on subsidies. Expanding the program statewide will require at least another $120 million every year — pushing the total tab toward $600 million in recurring spending. The governor says she will ask lawmakers during the upcoming 30-day session to cover the shortfall.
Critics are warning of the consequences. Sen. George Muñoz (D-Gallup), chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, questioned how the governor expects to sustain such massive recurring costs. “I don’t know how they’re going to explain to people they don’t have the money to pay for everyone’s child care,” Muñoz said.
The Legislative Finance Committee has also cautioned that expanding eligibility disproportionately benefits higher-income families, leaving fewer resources for low-income, at-risk children. House Republicans have blasted the program as “nannies for millionaires,” writing:
In total, the governor’s “universal” scheme represents a quarter-billion-dollar hike in taxpayer obligations, with no guardrails to prevent subsidizing the childcare of the rich. Meanwhile, pressing crises like New Mexico’s failing child welfare agency, doctor shortages, and rising crime continue to go unaddressed.
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High school can be moved to an online basis.
In the case of single moms, daddy could mind Jr. & Princess on Saturday & Sunday while mommy works as a waitress or in a store from 11am to 9:30pm.
The two systems could be combined.
The single moms would both work Saturday & Sunday, getting in say 18 hours a week that way.
For the weekdays, it would be like office workers.
With 8-hour days, they would average 38 hours a week and not have child care costs.
Make everything free in the land of enchantment!
I want to see how long that lasts.
True.
Good for you!
So in other words, this witch Grisham is running in 2028 and wants to get farther left sooner than the others.
That’s assuming there is a daddy available. Won’t work for single mom’s and I doubt that mom’s current live-in boy friend would want to take care of her former sperm-donor’s kids.
This is reminiscent of the Soviet Union taking children from parents so both can work in collectives while “teachers” educate children in the “benefits” of a Communist society.
As long as the billions in oil-gas money that funds greater than one-third of state government lasts. And what ever time frame that might be will be shortened by the radicals in state government who want to shut down the industry in the name of “climate change.”
MLG is term limited at the end of 2026. But with her far left positions she’s looking forward to joining Dems in DC if they win in 2028.
Michelle Wuhan Karen. La Gobernadora. Marxist Loving Grifter.
“Make everything free in the land of enchantment!
I want to see how long that lasts.”
MLG wants to stop oil production in the state, not very long…
FREE !!!, FREE !!!
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