Say 'No' to the American Families Plan, 'Yes' to American Families | Opinion
May 5, 2021
President Joe Biden unveiled the American Families Plan last week. The proposal is a massive subsidy for state-run child care—in the form of dramatic expansions of government spending on child care and universal "quality" pre-K—to the tune of $575 billion, to which we should say, "No."
"No," to the nakedly statist ambitions of the Biden administration, which has openly admitted that it seeks to come between mothers and their children and to have the state shape our children at an ever younger age. As none other than Susan Rice, head of the Domestic Policy Council, told David Brooks for a recent New York Times op-ed, "we want parents to be in the workforce, especially mothers." Brooks added that "the administration wants kids in classroom settings, to extend the public school system down two years" to three- and four-year-olds.
