But the orange leader said that tariffs will pay for child care
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How the fuck much are they making that it is still worth it after taking $40k off the top?
It's probably in NYC or San Fran if that's for one kid. Both parents could reasonably make 100-200k around there.
I mean anything more than like 60K is still technically making money. If they're in a place where Childcare costs 40k it is likely they make at least 80k due to the high cost of living or they have more than one child. The poorer people in that area have to use family, friends, and less official care. Federally, parents only get 12wk of unpaid leave.
For me, it would have to be at least 80k, otherwise you would effectively be earning less than your daycare provider. You could find one or two kids to watch with your own and effectively be making more money while being there with your child.
Child care costs are also tax deductible. Does help a bit.
https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-and-dependent-care-credit-information
What's a baby cost? $5,000?
I can get you one for $4k. No take backs though.
Well, most of a baby. Do you want the front half or
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How many friends are we talking about?
What’s stopping communal childcare from becoming a thing again? This is how working parents did it for thousands of years.
A lack of communities. Communal child care works great when you live in a village and you know everyone and most people around you are related to you.
We don’t have that anymore. People live in suburbs where they don’t even want to talk to their neighbours. Their relatives live far away, potentially in other provinces/states or even other countries.
Heck, a lot of people don’t even like their own relatives!
The grandparents who would have been available to watch the children are still working at 65 because they can't afford to retire.
Well luckily this won’t be a problem since we won’t have the money, space of career stability to have kids until we’re 40 anyway. By then they’ll have no choice but to retire.
I imagine a mix of the already diminished size of extended family units, and the liability implications if it's outside your own family unit.
You're essentially just describing an unlicensed daycare if it's not a family member, and those exist.
Gotta rebuild our community support networks. There are obstacles but it seems solvable.
Nothing. You can find communities online (I don't have one to recommend.)
Just remember, for most of history your neighbors were at least distant relatives.
Technically speaking they still are because everyone is a relative.
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
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