The Heritage Foundation does tend to make sense from time to time. But given that they, along with 70 other partisan organizations, are behind Project 2025, it’s hard for me to believe their ultimate goal is to actually help families and children.
To fix the childcare issue, parents in the thick of it and childcare workers need to be directly involved and actually listened to.
Partisan think tanks wanting to make it easier for the rich to hoard wealth, turn America a theocracy, and whose members believe a woman’s place is barefoot in the kitchen, have no place in discussions that affect real people who live in reality.
Sadly, like education, I have trouble believing that those whose voices are most important in the discussion will even be invited to the table.
I'll admit to being a bit surprised, but the Heritage link actually showed some reasonable, workable ideas.
Allowing 529 plans to contribute, not penalizing the benefit from employers, etc. seem like they would gather wide consensus. Others are worth consideration, though the ones "eliminating" regulations without each one being judged on it's own merits seem as suspicious as the Youngkin-Trump mantras of just eliminate 25% which didn't work out too well for anybody.
Despite the Republican urban legends to the contrary, most regulations are there for a reason. Debate them on their own merits.
Still, there are opportunities. Open the discussion. It needs addressing.
The Heritage Foundation does tend to make sense from time to time. But given that they, along with 70 other partisan organizations, are behind Project 2025, it’s hard for me to believe their ultimate goal is to actually help families and children.
To fix the childcare issue, parents in the thick of it and childcare workers need to be directly involved and actually listened to.
Partisan think tanks wanting to make it easier for the rich to hoard wealth, turn America a theocracy, and whose members believe a woman’s place is barefoot in the kitchen, have no place in discussions that affect real people who live in reality.
Sadly, like education, I have trouble believing that those whose voices are most important in the discussion will even be invited to the table.
I'll admit to being a bit surprised, but the Heritage link actually showed some reasonable, workable ideas.
Allowing 529 plans to contribute, not penalizing the benefit from employers, etc. seem like they would gather wide consensus. Others are worth consideration, though the ones "eliminating" regulations without each one being judged on it's own merits seem as suspicious as the Youngkin-Trump mantras of just eliminate 25% which didn't work out too well for anybody.
Despite the Republican urban legends to the contrary, most regulations are there for a reason. Debate them on their own merits.
Still, there are opportunities. Open the discussion. It needs addressing.