Ro Khanna Gets Wrecked for Pushing for 'Free' Child Care
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
Ro Khanna probably thought he was being helpful. Instead, he gave us the perfect picture of how the left thinks about your family: **hand over your paycheck**, and the government will take care of the kids. Run by the same people who can't process a driver's license renewal without three visits.
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Democrats talk about affordability all the time, but what they do is raise our taxes to give certain segments of society "free" stuff, making nothing more affordable and everything orders of magnitude worse.
Imagine if your child's day care was run like the DMV — lazy, rude employees who don't care if they waste your time or if they do a good job.
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Ro Khanna probably thought he was being helpful. Instead, he gave us the perfect picture of how the left thinks about your family: hand over your paycheck, and the government will take care of the kids. Run by the same people who can't process a driver's license renewal without three visits. He brought up the DMV comparison himself, and we're supposed to pretend that's a selling point? It's not. It's an admission.
Democrats talk about affordability all the time. Then they propose programs that require new taxes, new hiring, new buildings, and a brand-new agency to oversee it all. The cost doesn't disappear. It just gets buried in payroll deductions and property taxes while the quality sinks. We've seen this movie with public schools, with the post office, with the VA. Every time, the promise is compassion and the delivery is a line out the door.
What families actually need is to keep more of what they earn. That means lower taxes, flexible work arrangements, and support for the choices parents make on their own. Not a one-size-fits-all government facility that treats your child like a case number. Khanna's plan would be funny if it weren't so expensive. And it's never free. Someone always pays. Usually it's the working family stuck with the bill and the wait.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.