----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: RE: Gummint programs and stats (was RE: Presidents RE: Corruption ...)
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of John D. Giorgis > > [snip] > > > >A few months ago, I had suggested to the rest of the board at Plugged In > > >(www.pluggedin.org) that we add child care to our services, so that those > > >with the greatest obstacles, especially young, poor, single mothers, can > > >participate in our programs. After seeing these numbers, I > > decided to make > > >that, or something like it, a condition for my support of the building > > >project we are beginning. > > > > That is unfortunate. If we are to believe in equal pay for equal work, > > then employers should not provide extra benefits to employees > > with children > > without a stay-at-home mother vs. employees in a family where the wife (or > > husband) has chosen to invest in their own children by staying at home. > > > > Indeed, this is a market-distorting incentive that *discourages* > > having one > > parent stay at home with the children. > > In any event, employers who help their employees with child care are to be > commended, in my mind, since they're doing social good. It's not as if the > childless are being denied benefits; if they had children, they'd get the > same. You seem to be promoting the same line of thinking that has led > childless people to try to not pay taxes that go to schools, as if they had > received no benefit from the existence of public education. All of us are > *somebody's* children. > No, he's talking about providing benefits to families that have two working parents and has outside child care while not providing equal benefits to families that decide that one of the parents is the best child care provider, and has that person stay at home. It would be a strong incentive against having one of the parents be the main child care provider. Dan M.
