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.
And the rest of the taxpayers would be footing the bill. Terrible!
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.