Even the stupid party is finally waking up to the fact that we can help our side by embracing public policy that favors stay at home moms. It requires a degree of intelligence to craft laws that help one-paycheck families without feeding the machine that currently sucks up trillions of dollars for the sake of welfare cases. But it can be done.
This article describes the outline of policies that would support working families that want mom at home to make it a home for young children. Child tax credits and other forms of tax relief are a beginning. But what is needed is a new way for government to measure economic prosperity. The raising of children as an economic outcome has to be valued as a higher good than the economic value produced by forcing a woman into the workforce so that she can pay for her children to be attended by day care centers and pre-K education.
And once people start looking at the hidden costs for making children prohibitively expensive, we can quickly find the money needed to prevent it. The United States compensates for the low child birth rate by allowing enormous numbers of illegal immigrants. These are poor, uneducated and often criminal individuals who require enormous support payments in the shape of government support for housing, food, schooling and health care costs.
If all these dollars were transferred to ensuring that American parents have what it takes to afford a middle-class existence on one salary there would be plenty of money left over to pay down the national debt. According to the article, even that idiot Mitt Romney is open to some of the ideas that pro-family economics espouse.
So, here’s a tiny white pill to make the day a little better.