There’s a simple option for people alarmed about the high cost of raising kids: don’t have any. But if you have enough political sway, maybe you can coerce that magical entity known as “others” to shoulder the burden for you. To be fair, California is really just following Canada’s lead on this matter.
The number of 4-year-olds attending state-funded preschools reached record highs last school year, driven by states embracing universal access and an unprecedented $14.4 billion in spending.
More than half the nation’s public preschool enrollment gain — some 25,000 students — came in California, which this year made every 4-year-old eligible for its “ transitional kindergarten ” program, or “TK.”
“Transitional kindergarten”? I wonder who came up with that title.
My grandsons were in TK in their Orange County. beach town. Yes, it’s FREE government daycare. Sorry, but why the hell not? All the illegal immigrant children are getting the FREE shit … so why not white 6th generation Californian kids? It saved my daughter the $2,500/mo. daycare cost … and all my grandson’s friends were in it … so yeah … grab all that FREE SHIT with both hands. Psssst … they get FREE breakfast, lunch, and snacks too!
Yes, the government is raising your children. But somewhere in the 1960’s our society deemed it necessary to have two incomes if any household wanted to economically survive. Moms had to go to work. Children all became latchkeyed and daycared. Yes, it has broken our culture, our families and our children.
I have become a strong believer in homeschooling, but economic realities makes it hard to do.
I saw a meme appropriate to this post that I cannot find now. Anyway I’ll describe it.
A White couple saying they both worked at high paying jobs but could not afford to have children.
Compared to:
A muslim couple where only one worked and yet were raising a large family.
Before claiming it’s all the free stuff we taxpayers shower upon them, it is still about priorities.
Has anyone checked to see if those kids actually exist? Sounds a lot like the Quality Learing scam to me.
Kids aren’t expensive. But they do put a damper on extended adolescence lifestyle, travel, toys and not getting up in the morning. My wife quit working for a few years to actually raise our kids, instead of being a cubicle drone earning money for some daycare Karen to raise our kids. Best thing we ever did. Get their little brains working learning the alphabet and math instead of pronouns and genders.
+1
My wife did the same thing and didn’t go back to her teacher job until our youngest was in school. Yes, it comes down to hard choices … but it’s even tougher for my kids here in CA. My daughter relocated to a RED State … where her local elementary school is twice as demanding on her Kindergarten son than his CA school. Demanding as in personal responsibilities…
Now my daughter works remote from her new home … so there is that. She’s close and available to her boys.
The USA and Canada aren’t having children.
The immigrants coming in cost more than they produce. Some are stealing massive quantities of tax money through fraud.
Who’s going to pay for the ever expanding entitlements and government largesse? Who’s going to pay for social security?
What disgusts me is how they (the left) rigs the system against single earner families. The single parent pays higher taxes than paid by a family with equal income shared between two parents. And the single earner family with a stay at home parent pays heavily to support cheap daycare for the family where both parents work. To top it all off, the left denigrates stay at home parents and lauds the “career” as a higher achievement than the raising of healthy, happy children. So the birthrate is actively driven down and the government floods us with foreigners with foreign values.
Your biggest expenses are taxes. Repeat: your biggest expenses are taxes. More than food, shelter or entertainment. That is ignoring that deficits are just deferred taxes and the taxes keep rising. The most expensive words are “the government should do something” resulting in another government progran with iffy criteria and very real costs.
The tax breaks for having children are minimal compared to the costs or raising children. as a society we have traded children for convenience.