Let me put this another way: Childcare Q&A
29th June 2008
Megan McArdle runs the numbers on the “universal childcare” fantasy.
The basic argument is that we should have highly skilled, quality childcare available for every child under the age of five in America. We should ensure this by paying a high wage and good benefits to those workers.
Let’s unpack this a little.
Turns out that, as with many popular socialist programs, we can’t afford it. But wait, there’s more.
There is something truly odd to me about highly educated people who simultaneously believe that they have something better to do than employ their degree in singing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” seventy times a day, and also that there should be a large supply of bright, educated people who choose to do just that.