This reasoning is used in lots of contexts. “Workforce participation,” for example. Several of my friends and I take care of our own children: not “working” and adding nothing to GDP. If each of us paid the next one over to take care of our children, we’d all be in the “workforce” and all generating taxable income.
So brilliant, so true.
And cooking your own food. Treason! No restaurant to tax -— you’re robbing the gubmint!
Too inefficient. Just tax the mothers directly for the economic value of the childcare they are providing to their children. After all, any good liberal knows that the child belongs to society, and not the parents.
The philosopher that the left follows today said "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." That is what the left in America believes.