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>I think it would be much better to provide a one year paid stipend so that a parent can be home with the children during their tender years.

Or just learn from the best proven strategy -- 3 years maternity leave, free childcare from the year of 3, early retirement for grandparents who can be bothered to stay with kids so parents can have some time off.

That of course would be totally haram and communism, so instead the policy is to have immigration from places, but that is also totally haram and communism.

Pick your poison.

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The western idea of individualism and the villification of the lower-class has really fucked American society. "I don't wanna pay taxes for [insert thing that doesn't benefit me]" or "if you're poor it's your fault" in a country where costs of basic necessities like medical care, insurance, food, housing, school, are skyrocketing is insane to me.

I thought everyone had the right to life, liberty, and property, but it seems like if one can't afford to live then they are just left by the wayside.

Honestly reading comments in these types of news on HN makes me lose some hope in humanity. People are actively against anything that's not helpful for them and salivate at the idea of somehow profiting on top without a care for the human needs underneath it all.

They cite government inefficiencies when they just want to "fix them" by pocketing the difference.

It's depressing how much capitalism propaganda is deeply ingrained in so many supposedly smart people.

Yeah. It's easy to feel powerless too.

Yeah the govt has its inefficiencies, but an inefficient program that helps people is better than no program at all. So what if it means that I pay a few extra (hundred, thousand) dollars a year in taxes? If that's the cost for housing people, I'd gladly pay it.

And as if the appeal to humanity weren't enough, how about the fact that it'll keep the streets of SF and other cities cleaner?

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