While her primary opponent as well as at least one member of House Leadership is casting aspersions at the priorities expressed in the Governor’s budget address, at least one member of the conservative bloc of the State House of Representatives is noting his support for Governor Kristi Noem’s plan to expand child care funding.
Gotta start somewhere.
— Rep. Fred Deutsch (@FredDeutsch) December 26, 2021
The Bonecracker Caucus is a fickle mare to ride.
Yeah but Grud this bonecracker not only knows how to do Alighnment’s but also instill fear in naysayers of all things not their own puppy !
This proposal is going to be interesting. No doubt child care is an issue, but what exactly will this $100 million proposal accomplish? Will this line the pockets of current providers? Will it go to only new providers — using government money to compete with the current providers? How exactly will it build child care capacity without being a windfall to current providers?
Details are not Noem’s strong point. Or maybe that’s on purpose.
She’s creating a floor in the service which will ultimately make the service more expensive for those that will pay full rate. It also introduces much more government via regulations. Details always give way to intentions.
Maybe he is tweeting his support for it now only to oppose it later?
The government should not be involved in trying to make childcare (or anything else!) more available or affordable. It will only make things worse.
Why not just pay moms and dads to stay home and raise their children? Cut out the middle person (daycare) and while we are at it pay parents to homeschool and do away with the liberal education system.
Agree. Polling consistently shows working class moms would prefer much more time raising their children, but it’s a luxury they can’t afford. So they’re stuck in dead-end low-paying jobs while the kids are at a daycare that takes half their paycheck. How about this instead: instead of subsidizing an unwanted private industry (socialism, anyone?) focus on an economy that normalizes a one-income family wage and doesn’t force moms to leave their kids with strangers?
In states where child care is heavily subsidized the roaches crawl out of the woodwork to defraud the system. It is too easy for crooked providers to claim they are caring for children who aren’t actually in their care.
Here’s how it is done: a child attends their day care briefly and they get the demographic info, including the child’s social security number, and file claims for payment.
Then the child gets older, goes to school, moves away, something like that; isn’t going there anymore. But the provider continues to bill the state for the service. And the state keeps sending the money.
An alternative is universal, state-supported pre-k.
But quite honestly: if we have extra money to spend on education, let’s spend it where it counts. If 1/3 of the incoming freshman at our state colleges require remedial classes, that means they should not have graduated. If a fifth year of high school is necessary, it should not cost them college tuition money to get it. Refund them the cost of the remedial classes they have to take when they go to college, and start flagging the high schools they came from.
Why?
Gonna’ need some bathroom and gender legislation for this expanded child-care iniative.
A whole new frontier of potty bills for Rep Duetsch.
That is why.