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crease federal and state governments’ control of child care services; decrease parents’ choice; and discriminate against informal providers (parents, relatives, friends) and church-sponsored and run facilities. And it would create one more extensive bureaucracy to run the show.
View 2: Congressman Slaughter recognizes the assault on the family in this child care/day care legislation controversy, and he favors a different plan. Among its provisions is an Earned Income Tax Credit, helping the lower earning employed through tax rebates and those without income via vouchers; the amounts reduce as incomes increase. This method allows parents complete freedom of choice and costs less by avoiding a new, large bureaucracy.
Most Rappahannock County parents and voters will understand why I support the second alternative. It follows the principle, “That government governs best which governs least.” It would cost less, not requiring the sort of bureaucratic overhead that has consumed tens of billions of dollars and done essentially nothing to solve, for example, the poverty and housing problems over the past twenty years. It would not tell parents where they must place, nor “punish” those like myself who prefer to care at home for, their children.
Fairer, cheaper, better. You can see why I support Congressman Slaughter on this issue in 1990.
CATHY W. FRAZIER
Amissville
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