Never having used one myself i can’t state anything different from the article. The way the article was written and my understanding of the word subsidy,I take away a partial payment from the government to subsidize the end user of the service. If it’s something different then so be it,the article was poorly written.
I for one,while against most everything this current government stands for,don’t think that helping people to keep jobs by helping to pay for someone to watch their children is necessarily a bad thing. The cell phone giveaways are insane. This government does not know where the line between necessity and luxury begins and ends or perhaps simply refuses to acknowledge one exists.
Sorry if I made it sound like you were misusing the word! Absolutely not so. I knew it was a problem with the article, not the poster!
Here in our area there are entire child care centers that are totally run by the funds from this source. This is not a subsidy. It’s welfare, pure and simple.
And not that I’m opposed to the centers. For many of these kids it’s the nearest thing they get to any kind of attention and care. But they are simply another example of using “the children” to extract money from the taxpayer to support a lifestyle the taxpayer has worked to avoid.
Sorry to be cranky right here at Christmas, but I see no end in sight. It gets worse every year and this year seems to have brought the start of socialized medicine.