- Biden’s “Build Back Better” slogan really should be “Build Back Bureaucracy.” The so-called Biden Family Plan, which is pushed in reconciliation, offers a government-knows-best model that spends huge sums of money to fund benefits that politicians create and control while piling up debt for future generations.
- The Biden plan also fails to address families’ real child care, education, and workplace leave needs. When the federal government takes more money from American families’ income and redistributes it in the form of benefits that politicians—not families—decide are necessary, past experience show that these efforts end up hurting their intended beneficiaries.
- True policy reforms should support family formation and stability. Eliminating marriage penalties in our welfare system, encouraging flexibility in work and child care, and offering more schooling options and better access to better private health plans would be good starts.
Resources:
- New Child Care Subsidies May Sound Great, but Will Families Be Able To Use Them? (November 15, 2021)
- 4 Reasons Why Liberal Politicians Should Abandon Federal Takeover of Paid Family Leave (October 27, 2021)
- Democrats’ Destructive Spending Spree Would Turn America Into a European Social Welfare State (October 12, 2021)
- $3.5 Trillion Bill Spends Big on Ineffective and Unpopular Preschool and Childcare Programs (October 1, 2021)
- Preschool Funding in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Is Modeled After Failed Head Start Program (September 28, 2021)
- 5 Things You Need to Know About the Paid Family Leave Program in Progressive’s $3.5 Trillion Package (September 27, 2021)
- Beware the Strings Attached to All That Government Spending (September 27, 2021)
- Creating New Programs that Put Bureaucrats in Control of Your Family (September 21, 2021)
- American Families Plan Undermines Families, Self-Fulfillment (September 17, 2021)
- $3.5T Spending Bill Would Lavish Hundreds of Billions on Nanny State Education (September 10, 2021)
- Being a Parent is Hard Enough: It’s Time for Congress to Help Families Thrive (August 12, 2021)
- President Biden’s Plan Harms Families and Undermines Work (June 1, 2021)
- Biden’s Workforce Push Eclipses Women’s Personal Career and Family Choices (May 28, 2021)
- The Unintended Consequences of the American Families Plan (May 24, 2021)
- Why President Biden’s Government Solutions Would Actually Weaken the Infrastructure of American Families (May 3, 2021)
- Why Joe Biden’s So-Called “Infrastructure” Plan Is a Mistake (April 27, 2021)
- Consequential Decisions on Reconciliation and the Byrd Rule (February 4, 2021)