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Child care costs for many U.S. families during peak inflation in 2022 ranged from $6,552 to $15,600 per child, comparable to rent, according to Labor Department data.

These high costs strained household budgets, disproportionately impacted women’s workforce participation, and fueled economic dissatisfaction among voters.

While Kamala Harris proposed policies to reduce child care costs, Donald Trump capitalized on broader economic grievances to expand his voter base, despite offering few specifics on addressing the issue.

Pandemic-era federal aid helped stabilize costs but left parents bearing much of the financial burden.

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[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Small-l libertarian, classical liberal, minarchist, or maybe even an Ancap, I'm not quite sure, but whichever gets the government to go away and leave people alone to live their lives as they seem fit. All the parties today are trash, compromised by foreign interests, corporations, billionaires, grifters, or worse, and I want nothing to do with them.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

What’s your plan for when the government isn’t there and your local warlords…i mean amazon service representatives come to your house and take all your shit or enslave you? Not like you’ll be able to call the police or anything since you don’t want government.

Or hell, whats your plan to get rid of your garbage when there is no government? Throw it into your neighbors yard?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Or hell, whats your plan to get rid of your garbage when there is no government?

The bears will take care of it.

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Garbage, uhmm, you pay a monthly fee (about $30) and they take it away weekly, or if its burnable, it goes on the brush pile until the pile gets tall enough that you need a bigger tractor to pile it any higher.

Police... Definitely wouldn't waste time calling them, the action would be over before they even finished their donuts.

[-] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That's literally what's happening right now and the corporations are running amok, so this doesn't work in the slightest

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Right. Greedy and callous and serving the corpos and billionaires you unconvincingly claim to oppose.

How does childcare benefit anyone but children and parents?

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Are you kidding? Childcare benefits the economy. More people in the workforce full time rather than needing to stay home and watch kids, more money in the system than spent on childcare, and a more skilled workforce as people are able to stay in careers longer. It also benefits society as kids are able to have earlier socialization and learning opportunities and have better outcomes growing up.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I can see why libertarians oppose it.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yes. They are Republicans who got tired of being taken seriously.

A libertarian is a person who can throw a dart at a map and tell you what the age of consent is where it lands. Their eyes light up if it lands in international waters.

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