This week, first daughter Ivanka Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) unveiled an outline for their plan for paid parental and family leave. The plan would allow families to take time against their Social Security retirement age at their discretion.
This notion is apparently unacceptable to most on the Left and a few on the Right. Those people believe that the government has a stake in childbearing and childrearing, and that the government should therefore incentivize behavior through subsidies, even if it means borrowing money from China to make it happen. That’s not a surprise coming from George W. Bush-style “compassionate conservatives,” but it is a surprise coming from the same Left that declared traditional marriage a relic, suggesting that same-sex marriage was its functional equivalent — even though the basis of government preferring traditional marriage to same-sex marriage lies in traditional marriage’s function with regard to childbearing and childrearing.
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