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> please have at least three kids.

I'm very happy to do so - on exacally one condition, daycare becomes free.

See this is interesting to me. For daycare to become free to parents, ideally governments would subsidize it to 100%. That money comes from somewhere, so probably taxpayer dollars.

So you are still paying for it, just slightly more indirectly.

So, would you rather pay a lot for childcare all at once when you need it (for 5 years per kid), or pay a little via taxes forever?

Forever, for two reasons.

1. It's a large financial hit at an already highly stressful time. It's usually also a non-optional expense.

2. It also taxes those who are childless.

We already do free childcare via K-12 education in the US via taxes, we just need to fill in the gap before that.

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