Biden to unveil 'caregiving' plan for young kids, older Americans
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Biden to unveil 'caregiving' plan for young kids, older Americans
Biden's campaign puts the price tag at $775 billion over 10 years.
Former Vice President Joe Biden talks with a young boy during a campaign event on Feb. 10 in Gilford, N.H. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Former Vice President Joe Biden will announce a new plank of his economic recovery plan Tuesday, focused on boosting the nation's workforce of caregivers and early childhood educators.
The plan aims to ensure American families have access to affordable child care and builds on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's earlier promise of free preschool for all three- and four-year-olds, by way of federal funding, extra tax credits and subsidies provided on a sliding scale.
The proposal would also expand access to care for older Americans and those with disabilities.
Biden's campaign puts the price tag at $775 billion over 10 years and says it would be fully covered by rolling back tax breaks for real estate investors with incomes over $400,000 and taking steps to increase tax compliance for high-income earners.
The plan calls for building energy-efficient child care facilities, including in workplaces. The former vice president is also proposing to boost pay, benefits and training for caregivers and early childhood educators, while ensuring they have the choice to join unions and collectively bargain.
Along with pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, Biden wants to offer low-income and middle-classfamilies a tax credit of up to $8,000 to help pay for child care. He proposes to subsidize child care on a sliding scale forfamilies that prefer that option over the tax credit.
The plan also calls for expanded access to after-school, weekend and summer care for families with school-age children, as well as investments in child care and wraparound services at community college, plus greater access to Department of Defense child care for military families.
Biden's campaign says his plan would put 3 million Americans to work in new care and education jobs, while providing families up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave"
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Joe Cares!
Let's see: education, healthcare, and jobs? Doesn't sound too shabby to me.
Joe cares! while ensuring they have the choice to join unions and collectively bargain......
Like hell he does, he's simply pandering for votes. Would this be on top of AOC's Green New Deal and Medicare for Everybody?
while providing families up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave"
Who's going to pay for all of Joe's largesse?
You can read Joe's plan if you have questions...
Hell.... Who's going to pay for all of Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.......
The same folks who will pay for Biden's hare-brained schemes.
US Federal Taxpayers, as usual.
So that leaves out close to 40% of the population.
So that makes your answer about 60% of US Federal Taxpayers.
Actually that deserves it's own seed just to discuss health care.
1. If you opt out of your employer's health care plan, your employer would be required to pay the government (a tax) the money they were paying to the insurance company and listed as part of your benefit package.
2. You would pay as additional tax, the amount you are currently paying to your employer's insurance company.
So yes - taxes would go up but you would not necessarily be out more money. Depends on how skillfully it was done.
Insurance companies would not necessarily be left out in the cold. The government could subcontract them to do some of the processing and administration. There would be profit - just not the profit needed for massive CEO salaries.
There was a time that Democrats and Republicans would have thrashed this out and come to a compromise.
That's never going to happen again in my lifetime. The winner of the next election will decide.
Actually, Republicans support paid family leave - they just want to pay for it with the user's future Social Security Benefits. It's kind of a two-fer, Family Leave and destroy SS at the same time.
Giving stuff away to get votes