New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
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New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
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Re: New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
#2huge achievement. congratulations to all involved
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#4Paid for from oil and gas revenues
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#5Paid for from oil and gas revenues
And schools get funding from lotteries and casinos, and healthcare gets funding from alcohol and cigarette sales.
A good thing funded by taxes on a bad thing is pretty common in America.
Re: New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
#6Nobody is opposed to people obtaining child care. Making it affordable and accessible are noteworthy and desirable goals.
The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.
Re: New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
#7Nobody is opposed to people obtaining child care. Making it affordable and accessible are noteworthy and desirable goals. The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.
You mean like all that fraud Musk found in the social security system?
Re: New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
#8Nobody is opposed to people obtaining child care. Making it affordable and accessible are noteworthy and desirable goals. The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.
People overemphasize the fraud with what they don't like and ignore the fraud that goes on with the things they do like.
Re: New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
#9Nobody is opposed to people obtaining child care. Making it affordable and accessible are noteworthy and desirable goals. The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.
One of the points of universal type programs is that everyone can get it so what’s to defraud.
Re: New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law
#10Nobody is opposed to people obtaining child care. Making it affordable and accessible are noteworthy and desirable goals. The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.
> The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.
The optimal amount of fraud is not "zero".
The goal is to enforce just enough to keep the fraud below a threshold while not making it too onerous for the people who need and receive the benefit.
And, if you really want to go after fraud, you are far better going after the people who commit it at an organized institutional level: see GOP leadership in Florida and Medicare.