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https://mises.org/wire/family-fades-governments-subsidize-daycares-and-nursing-homes Whether Idenko was truly as cavalier toward her motherly duties as this quote suggests or needed to return to work out of material necessity is unclear. Thankfully, in this story there is a remnant of the extended family in Idenko’s mother-in-law, who stepped in and gave the child some filial attention. The US follows in the footsteps of its defeated rival. For fiscal year 2020, $5.826 billion was devoted to funding the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). The recent CARES Act allocated another $3.5 billion for the CCDBG, which “provides subsidies to assist low-income families in obtaining child care so that parents can work or participate in education or training activities.” Of course, the largest government daycare program is the public K-12 school system. Naturally, the situation is even worse in France, where the state provides 80 percent of the funding for the childcare system, in which “From the age of 2½ months to 3 years a child can be placed in a crèche.” These “crèches” are various types of childcare facilities that are found in “All cities, towns and some villages” and operate eleven hours daily. The Elderly About 1.3 million Americans live in nursing homes rather than with their families. In fiscal year 2010, 66.6 percent of the $207.9 billion of spending on long-term care expenditures came from the government. This includes government spending on nursing homes, as well as funding for other types of long-term care like home health services. However, even when the state uses taxes to hire a healthcare worker to provide assistance within the home, this still helps to replace the family in providing this assistance. In other countries, the state does even more to force resources away from the family and into nursing homes and other forms of state provision for the elderly. In Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, the state uses taxes to fund universal long-term care. The Vampirism of Double Taxation What is so harmful about using taxes to fund these services? Some families who would prefer to take care of their children and elderly parents themselves in their own homes are stripped of the resources they would have used to do so, as these resources are taxed away to pay for daycare and nursing home subsidies, government schools, etc. In effect, those who want to take care of their families are forced to pay twice to do so, first for the subsidies they’re not using and second to take care of their families themselves. When families are taxed but outsourcing family obligations is subsidized, there will be more of the latter, and the family bond will dissolve. What about the Poor? When the state pours resources into an output, it hasn’t summoned these resources ex nihilo. It’s taken these resources from society, and so the employers, family members, and charities that would have ushered the poor into the middle class are all left less able to do so. The state takes from the left pocket of society and gives to the right pocket, minus the share that covers the salaries of the bureaucrats who arrange the transfer and whatever is lost through fraud, corruption, and incompetence. When it comes to efficiently serving the poor, civil society makes the state look like a slow-motion train wreck: The Policy Answer and the Local Answer The decline of the family is caused in part by the state and in part by much deeper issues. Half of the solution is to work to end state subsidies for the replacement and dissolution of the family. The other half is to not wait for this to come about, but rather to fight now in our own lives and take care of those closest to us, despite the obstacles. Agree with Mr. Mkrtchian. These subsidies and policies are slowly destroying the American family, as we can see if now 4-5 generation of some families where the majority of members know nothing more than surviving on public assistance.

By all means please expound on that statement.

https://reason.com/2021/01/07/where-do-we-go-after-the-trumpist-tantrum/ A fantastic piece by Mr. Tuccille. I heartily agree with all this pints. "We the people" have for too long allowed our federal legislators to cede their responsibilities to the office of the POTUS, and now way to much power is invested in that office. As I have argued before the size, scope, and reach of the federal government needs to be reduced by at least 25% across the board. What we are seeing is the result of a federal government where as stated in the opinion piece "Regulation has supplanted legislation, and dear colleague letters, interpretations, and executive orders have supplanted regulation…". This needs to stop.

Pelosi Says Congress Is 'Prepared' To Impeach Trump Again Unless Pence Invokes 25th Amendment: https://reason.com/2021/01/07/pelosi-says-congress-is-prepared-to-impeach-trump-again-unless-pence-invokes-25th-amendment/ It's pretty obvious the entire Trump presidency was pretty much just one big trolling effort from start to finish, and it seems to have worked.

Nice joke.

Wrestler Mick Foley asks Vince McMahon to boot Donald Trump from the WWE Hall Of Fame https://news.avclub.com/wrestler-mick-foley-asks-vince-mcmahon-to-boot-donald-t-1846014570 Must the ultimate embarrassment for Mr. Trump.

Should Mr. Pence spearhead the process spelled out the 25th Amendment to have Mr. Trump removed from office?

Making this about race is yet another low for you, StatGuy.

Glad to see you put the Hot Dogs at the top of that list.

Childish.

Yep, the liberal MSM has made millions over the last four years picking apart every single things Mr. Trump has said or done, ad nauseum. No way will they be that critical with Mr. Biden.

Meh, when Trump is holding the office of POTUS the MSM and many others like you suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Now the MSM is going to suffer from TWS, Trump Withdrawal Syndrome. Sleepy Joe Biden just can't naturally summon the disdain that the MSM and yourself heaped on Mr. Turmp. I guess he'll have to ramp up the unjust wars in the Middle East.............

Cleaning Up The Leftovers From Biden’s Last Bout Of Leadership: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/cleaning-up-the-leftovers-in-iraq-from-bidens-last-bout-of-leadership/ Yep. Mr. Biden promises only more endless war and suffering.

If and only if the Bears defense can pressure and/or sack Brees early and often.

Rep. Cleaver ends opening prayer for new Congress: ‘Amen and awoman’: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-cleaver-ends-opening-prayer-for-new-congress-amen-and-awoman

Yes, and I firmly believe the outcome would be the same today.

https://www.cato.org/blog/libertarian-alternative

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-defense-policy-bills-85656704ad9ae1f9cf202ee76d7a14fd More "rah-rah yay WAR!" claptrap from Congress.

A "North Central Conference" without a Kokomo isn't really "North Central". Logically your conference idea is more like the "Near East-Central Conference".

Agreed. A phase-in approach would be the appropriate way. When is Faith Christian going to start playing tackle football?

They should. Mr. Roswarski should be on the phone raising hell with the Tippecanoe County government on how their government school system is poaching his rightful students.

So if the city of Lafayette has expanded it's geographical boundaries through the years via annexation then it only makes sense the school boundaries should expand as well. LSC is getting a raw deal IMHO.

When There Wasn't Enough Hand Sanitizer, Distilleries Stepped Up. Now They're Facing $14,060 FDA Fees. https://reason.com/2020/12/30/when-there-wasnt-enough-hand-sanitizer-distilleries-stepped-up-now-theyre-facing-14060-fda-fees/ So the free and open market steps up to fill a need and then the government slaps them for it.

There is an initial and ongoing expense to setting such a system up. If for one do not support a cashless society.

California Women's March Canceled for Being 'Overwhelmingly White' https://reason.com/2018/12/31/womens-march-eureka-california-white-int/?itm_source=parsely-api This intersectionality nonsense just needs to go away.