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i monitor them. For a change, the comepratives haven't been caught napping on this one. Now that more mothers are takin: Jo by a logical by-product of Women’s Liban technological change, but widely attributed by the Democrats to sank starvation under Reagan), day care for toddiers is indeed becoming a bigger poblem. ut conservatives, such as the Megitage Foundation and Education Secretary William Bennett, wisely went to leave i up to the mothers themselves to decide where, and by whom, shar infant children shall be cared for. What's more, gay the conservatives, the financial aid should be distributed (perhaps on the basis of a means test) to all mothers ake, whether they take an outside job, or forego that extra income to stay home and care for their children themselves, or leave them with a relative, or in a private day-care gellity, or of some federal seller the Democrats mmanage in insist’ on ing. . Moreover, the enteidy would take the form, not of another federal check, but of a simple tax credit. (Mothers put payin taxes could receive the value of the credit in voucher farm, to be tuned over to the individual of institution of their choice.) The result would be the panct opposite of the present system of tax credits for day care, which (like 89 many other examples of Highirother's concern for us) [avers famiiies with incomes B have the median. Expensive? You, though without the heavy admini strative coats that would accompany the Democrats’ proposal. or at least our children wouldn't have to grow up in some federal playground under the Wemlan eye of a huge colored Uthograph of Tip O'Neill,
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Monessen Valley Independent
Monessen, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jul 28, 1988
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