Here’s Carrie Lukas, writing on NRO about Senator Warren’s child-care plan:

Warren’s approach would heavily subsidize the one child-care choice that most parents say they prefer least — day-care centers — over others, such as sacrificing income to keep a parent at home or having a grandparent or other family or community member care for children. It would be far better to focus on making life more affordable for all families, by reforming tax and regulatory policies that drive up the cost of living and make it more difficult to live on one income, than to layer on another costly government subsidy that only helps some.

In that post, Lukas also notes that some day-care regulations raise its costs without enhancing its quality and suggests they be altered.

And here’s Paul Krugman, defending the plan while linking to Lukas:

I’m seeing at least some commentary on the right that doesn’t just push back against the whole idea of making it easier for mothers to work, it wants us to go back to the days when families could “live on one income.” Realistically, of course, that’s not going to happen . . .

I’d like it if Krugman characterized the views of people with whom he disagrees honestly. Realistically, of course . . .

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