Better day care with less government, by Jeff E. Jared,
Libertarian Party News, Oct 2003
Suggests that by deregulating day care, such as by eliminating licensing, zoning and higher standards, and by cutting taxes so that one can parent can stay home, day care would be much more affordable
If we deregulated the day care field, the cost ... would go down and its accessibility would go up ... [G]iving tax breaks and subsidies only to working parents with kids in day care discriminates against stay-at-home mothers ... [L]icensing only lulls parents into a false sense of security ... Zoning laws also restrict where in-home day care facilities can operate and how many kids they can have ... After deregulation, we'd see a flowering of day care providers, whether they are companies like Kindercare or Auntie down the street ... The solution is simply lower taxes and fewer regulations.
How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden, by
Per Bylund,
Mises Daily, 31 May 2006
Contrasts the morality and attitudes of the generation of Bylund's grandmother to that of the first and second generations "raised with and by the welfare state"
[M]y parents' generation went to public schools where they were taught mathematics and languages as well as the superiority of welfare and the morality of the state ... And [taught] everybody should enjoy the right to put their children in state daycare centers while working, making it possible for every family to earn two salaries (but not enough time to raise their children) ... A significant difference between my generation and the preceding one is that most of us were not raised by our parents at all. We were raised by the authorities in state daycare centers from the time of infancy ...
