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A Good Child Care Bill

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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