Even those flexible spending accounts that cover daycare costs require a receipt for parents to be reimbursed. Should grandma need to create a business, document her time, report her "daycare" income, and provide a receipt for looking after grandbaby?
We definitely should incentivize in order: parents, kinfolk, and neighbors before subsidizing businesses to do childcare. Childcare tax credits that turn into cash subsidies only when the caregivers pay no taxes. But mothers who stay home would get the most.
Even those flexible spending accounts that cover daycare costs require a receipt for parents to be reimbursed. Should grandma need to create a business, document her time, report her "daycare" income, and provide a receipt for looking after grandbaby?
There are certainly larger societal issues at play.
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/why-women-blow-up-their-marriages
We definitely should incentivize in order: parents, kinfolk, and neighbors before subsidizing businesses to do childcare. Childcare tax credits that turn into cash subsidies only when the caregivers pay no taxes. But mothers who stay home would get the most.