An insidious plot

After thinking about this long and hard, I've decided that I really don't want to subsidize child care for affluent two-earner couples. I just don't. Sorry to all of you two-earner couples who want the subsidies. C'mon, your median income is something like $30,000 more than single earner two-parent families. Sure, some of that has to go to child care, work-related expenses, etc., but your take-home pay is still going to be nice enough that you can buy that bigger house, or afford to pay more for a house that really isn't worth it thereby driving up housing prices. Whatever. I'm fine with your decision. I just don't think that my taxes should go toward programs that are gussied up to look like wonderful education opportunities but are really fronts so that you can get your kids into state-sponsored free child care. Sure makes it easier when the state's watching your kids all day when they are 4 and 5, as opposed to having to pay for child-care arrangements/preschool for your four and five-year-olds. It's certainly not for the kids, because what kid wants to be stuck in a pre-K program full-day? I don't care how jolly the teachers are, what awesome curriculum they're using. Did you all love school that much that you wished that you could have done it full time for two years earlier than you did? Thought not. It's all about needing an arrangement and if it's a free state program, hey! All the better.

Well I don't like it. If you had the kids, you pay for them. I'm not going to. Well, that is, if I actually had to pay taxes...