The tax breaks being proposed for universal brat care are attractive to people who don't want to raise their kids.
Adding two years of additional brat care means new infrastructure every where. It also means someone has to pay for that shit. And breeders may think they are getting a good deal but they will paying for it for the rest of their lives and they will pay more in taxes than they will receive in benefits if their lifespan is normal and they have less than 7 kids under three if the law passes. Those two years they are working (instead of staying at home) will mean they will pay more taxes for a longer period of time. Breeders also think a tax refund is great (and not a interest free loan to the government) and 1/3 of the brats are unplanned. It is a permanent tax increase proposal to pay for two years of brat care for people too stupid to work out their own day care arrangements. It is rewarding the stupid.
It is a raw deal and I hope it doesn't pass but politicians only care about votes and stupid breeders never think anything through, they just breed and react to everything like jackasses. They never act.
And the government is just like a casino. Dumb breeders go to the government
casinos thinking they will win. The only people at casinos who win are the owners and all they care about is the incoming operating costs! Everyone else pays. They can't teach finance in schools because a financially educated population is a threat to the government.
We have bridges and roads in danger of collapsing in most states and masses of people trying to recover from a pandemic, a tourism and airline industry in peril, new breeder benefits shouldn't even be a consideration.
And the universal healthcare BS? The COVID immunization is a microcosm of what to expect with universal healthcare. The COVID immunization required over 12 hours of me busting my ass, clicking on links claiming there are available appointments and filling out long assed questionnaires to repeatedly find no available appointments and more than once all appointments were booked out for two months. The only question they should have been asking is if I was at least 16, since that was the only requirement when I was eligible. And I still have one more shot to go, so there is more time. It doesn't matter a whit that I have relatives with long term COVID, I was put in the same risk group as children. For the majority of children COVID is asymptomatic or at least no worse than having flu for a few days. For people over 30 it is typically 3-4 weeks of being sick and a much higher risk for hospitalization and long term symptoms.
The counties touting all those unfilled appointments in the news? I tried this approach for the vocal one that keeps proclaiming to the news that they have availability in my state. Once you filled out yet another dumb questionnaire to find you are only eligible if you are a resident of specific regions of the county! There is a mass site in a nearby city where over 3 million people reside within a short distance, so expect to spend days there and camp out to get immunized and find a parking spot. There are also a few mass sites in remote parts of the state I live in but all are three or more hours away and a six plus hour drive is a big risk because a shot isn't guaranteed and it requires at least one return visit to obtain the second shot. The walk-in clinic I went to warned us to not arrive before 6 a.m. in the morning because they have attendants who are monitoring the parking lot. The clinic opens at 8 a.m.
Expect to be put in lines according to the government "guidelines" and the exact same crap with universal healthcare if it becomes a thing. Also expect lots of people to die while waiting or to leave the country to get healthcare. And before long you'll be able to purchase private insurance in addition to paying taxes for crap universal healthcare. If you want decent care expect to pay for it twice.