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ICYMI: Democrats’ Massive Entitlement Plans Include Banning Christians From Government Childcare
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
December 15, 2021
Child care provisions in the Democrats’ House-passed spending bill discriminate against faith-based child care providers by excluding them from being able to access federal subsidies. This will push these private day care facilities out of the market, raise the cost of child care overall, and give parents less choice.
The purpose of Democrats’ child care provisions is to get parents out of the way and children into Washington-approved, Washington-controlled day care facilities. The so-called Build Back Better Act builds a federally controlled child care system that will leave American families worse off, not better. We must resist the Democrats’ schemes to nationalize child care and pre-k. In Case You Missed It via the Federalist, Democrats’ child care provisions are both discriminatory and bad for families.
By Joy Pullman December 14, 2021 Democrats’ current proposed $3.5 trillion welfare expansion would effectively ban faithful Christians from profiting from federal subsidies for separating infants and toddlers from their families. The current text of Democrats’ massive “Build Back Better” entitlement bill contains provisions that would require religious child-care providers to disavow longstanding theology about sex in order to receive federal child-care funds under a massive new early childhood program. … Democrats’ legislation would create a new federally controlled child-care entitlement available to the majority of families in the nation. The legislation authorizes up to $20 billion in the program’s first year, $30 billion in its second, $40 billion in its third, and an unlimited amount after that. The estimated cost of this program over the next ten years is $400 billion. … Among the minority of American families who enroll young children in full-time care, 53 percent currently choose a religious facility, according to a January 2021 survey of parents from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Family care was parents’ top preference for their children, with religious-based care the second-most preferred option in the BPC poll. Democrats’ bill would also likely dramatically increase the costs of childcare by increasing the licensing requirements for people the government pays to babysit tiny children. … Large early childhood programs are of notoriously poor quality. The major existing such program, Head Start, has failed to improve attendees’ education and life prospects in all the quality research done on the program that has spent some $250 billion from taxpayers since it began in 1965. In fact, federal research has found that children who participated in Head Start later learned less in math and behaved worse than peers who didn’t participate. … Read the full article at the Federalist here. |
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