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A Good Child Care Bill
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The Washington Post
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April 2, 1990
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Copyright informationCopyright 1990 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information)
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IN THE CHILD care bill that they finally passed the other day,
House Democrats gave President Bush most of what he said he wanted.
His response has been to threaten to veto the final product because
he didn't get it all. He is engaged much more in the symbolism of
the issue than in the substance.
What the House passed is less a child care bill than an
antipoverty bill in child care disguise. Three-fifths of the cost of
about $5 billion a year once the bill is fully effective would come
through a liberalization of the earned-income tax credit (more or
less paid for by an extension of the expiring telephone excise tax).
The EITC is a form of hamburger-helper for the working poor with ...
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