JD Vance answered a question from Charlie Kirk about lowering the high cost of childcare and here’s his response:
Kirk: What can we do about lowering the cost of daycare? pic.twitter.com/YIS68cXKw4
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 5, 2024
Some chick on X claimed that what JD Vance said “makes no sense”, suggesting he doesn’t know what he’s talking about:
I rarely QT for purposes of correction but this is a good example of what I was trying to identify in threads earlier this week: B/c Vance inaccurately defines the problems families face, he offers solutions that make no sense https://t.co/qGh0wmd3wL
— hannah anderson (@sometimesalight) September 5, 2024
JD Vance saw this and responded with a detailed policy proposal, showing he knows exactly what he’s talking about and she’s the one who does not:
Hi Hannah, I hope you’ve been doing well. A few thoughts here.
1) Many don’t fully appreciate how federal (and state) policy penalizes particular family models–particularly in-home care and kinship care–over others. That’s true of the Child Care Development Block Grant and the Dependent Care Tax Credit, though in different ways for each. So yes, parents or grandparents might not be able to help, but