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    The focus on investment in and direct aid to families is already a motif. Republicans, are you paying attention?

    The proposal will direct the funds toward universal pre-school for all three- and four-year-olds through a national partnership with states, the official said. The White House estimates it will benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000 when the plan is fully implemented.


    The proposal marks a key plank of Biden's roughly $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, the second prong of his sweeping $4 trillion in spending on physical infrastructure, research and development, home care, child care, paid family and medical leave and extensions of key anti-poverty tax credits.

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    I do not think it is the governments job to educate my kids
    I do not send my kids to public schools
    They are teaching the true history of the country. They do not teach the good and bad things in USA history

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    All you posters with parents who die and leave them their house and some investments all totally over $1 million (don't think your inheritance won't reach that especially by the time your parents pass - any decent house in Miami NOW is about 1/2 million) won't think Biden's plan is so great when you have to fork over a whopping 40% capital gains tax + Obamacare investment tax. How is Biden's plan being paid for - NO STEP-UP in value on that house your parents paid $50k for - instead prepare to sell that house just to pay the taxes and cry over what little is left of your inheritance.

    There will be a mad rush to sell houses that have appreciated and use those $250k exemptions to avoid paying taxes. Except, of course, those seniors who don't know, or can't sell their house - or should I say poor ordinary folks (not the rich ones who have their tax lawyers and accountants to help navigate them around paying these taxes).

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    One of the most people's friendlier president we had in some time. Women who have children in particular are cashing in big with Biden.

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    One of the most people's friendlier president we had in some time. Women who have children in particular are cashing in big with Biden.
    If they love handouts

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    Anti-poverty measures - what a joke. Imo, the 2 things that would help lift people out of poverty the most is emphasis on a 2-parent home and better education through school choice. Lebron, instead of his "social justice" comments, ought to be out there pushing the benefits of being/staying with the same woman your entire adult life. And instead of bowing to the teachers' unions (voting Dem), parents should be demanding school choice so that they and their kids can decide what will best lift them out of poverty (a good education) - not following STUPID policies like getting rid of VA's calculus classes.

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    A president who actually cares for our children?

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    Anti-poverty measures - what a joke. Imo, the 2 things that would help lift people out of poverty the most is emphasis on a 2-parent home and better education through school choice. Lebron, instead of his "social justice" comments, ought to be out there pushing the benefits of being/staying with the same woman your entire adult life. And instead of bowing to the teachers' unions (voting Dem), parents should be demanding school choice so that they and their kids can decide what will best lift them out of poverty (a good education) - not following STUPID policies like getting rid of VA's calculus classes.
    What a pile of

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    One of the most people's friendlier president we had in some time. Women who have children in particular are cashing in big with Biden.
    We'll see how people friendly he is when you're forking over half of your inheritance. Oh but, it's only the rich it's gonna affect. Sorry, dear - that 1 million that year will be easily met by the time your parents pass.

    Cash in big for 18 years and pay for 50 years? Or CHOOSE not to have children and pay for 70 years?

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    school choice just s over everybody who cant afford private school tuition or doesnt have the means to have their kids commute to a farther school. its just a way for wealthier americans who pay for private school to be subsidized

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    says the man who sends his child to private, RELIGIOUS school - I guess public school must not be so hot after all.

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    school choice just s over everybody who cant afford private school tuition or doesnt have the means to have their kids commute to a farther school. its just a way for wealthier americans who pay for private school to be subsidized
    We'll see what you have to say about the subject when your doctor wife starts popping out the kids. Now, don't take into consideration the school zone(s) you live in when you buy that nice house.

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    We'll see what you have to say about the subject when your doctor wife starts popping out the kids. Now, don't take into consideration the school zone(s) you live in when you buy that nice house.
    we're expecting our first child in just over 2 months. that doesnt mean i suddenly feel inclined to over poor people so i can have them subsidize private school tuitions. the goal should be to improve the conditions of the schools that everybody has access to, not divert funding from the struggling schools to the ones that are already doing just fine

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    we're expecting our first child in just over 2 months. that doesnt mean i suddenly feel inclined to over poor people so i can have them subsidize private school tuitions. the goal should be to improve the conditions of the schools that everybody has access to, not divert funding from the struggling schools to the ones that are already doing just fine
    Big congrats there my bro.

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    says the man who sends his child to private, RELIGIOUS school - I guess public school must not be so hot after all.
    I'm not begging for a handout to pay for her to go to RELIGIOUS private school.

    It paid off tho. She had a great high school experience and has scholarship offers rolling in.

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    we're expecting our first child in just over 2 months. that doesnt mean i suddenly feel inclined to over poor people so i can have them subsidize private school tuitions. the goal should be to improve the conditions of the schools that everybody has access to, not divert funding from the struggling schools to the ones that are already doing just fine
    Congratulations - prepare yourself for the wildest ride ever. Even with an empty nest here, parenthood never stops.

    The money should follow the student - like in Canada and Finland (iirc). Compe ion improves the product - not subsidizing teachers' unions and poorly managed schools - that's just more of the same.

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    I'm not begging for a handout to pay for her to go to RELIGIOUS private school.

    It paid off tho. She had a great high school experience and has scholarship offers rolling in.
    I'm all for the money following the student. Your child is just as en led to an education as any other child. Who says it must be a public school - we should change this kind of thinking. You/your child should get to choose what's best for the child.

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    I'm not begging for a handout to pay for her to go to RELIGIOUS private school.

    It paid off tho. She had a great high school experience and has scholarship offers rolling in.
    I know you didn't send her there for the religion part but that you felt it was the best place for her. I'm glad it worked out. Not everyone can afford to do what you did though. But I feel that they also should have a choice - not be stuck in whatever poorly performing school that serves their zip code.

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    Those of you who think the poor should get off their lazy asses and get jobs should be happy about this. Now more single mothers have an incentive to get a job because their entire paycheck won't be going to daycare.

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    Sorry, I'm in such a snitty mood - just found out that (aspie) ds might fail one of his classes - that's why he's not been so hot on graduation. I've got to re-think the whole moving him out and finding another apartment this late in the game (if he fails).

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    Don't you guys have free PK where you are? We do here. And it won't do squat. Buying technology for each child to play books on tape will do more for educational outcomes than that glorified baby sitting. Do you know that they discourage teaching phonics here in PK (in effect hold back the kids) just so they can all be at the same level in Kindergarten (like it'll stay that way for long).

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    I know you didn't send her there for the religion part but that you felt it was the best place for her. I'm glad it worked out. Not everyone can afford to do what you did though. But I feel that they also should have a choice - not be stuck in whatever poorly performing school that serves their zip code.
    Boo capitalism Hooray socialism!

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    Boo capitalism Hooray socialism!
    Labels ... Is that what education is in Canada and Finland - the bastions of socialism? Somehow they manage to have the money follow the student and I'm sure have better educational outcomes than we do. You all can call it what you want but nobody could be happy with this system - I certainly wasn't and look at the drastic measures I took to avoid it.. I live here so these are the elementary, middle and senior high I must go to? We keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results - insanity. And now we're going to add pre-k to it - more madness and pay for it with the upheaval of the real estate market.

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    ducks in here reporting good news like its bad news.

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