In case that DemDebate exchange with Kirsten Gillibrand made you curious, here is Joe Biden's 1981 op-ed that sure seems to suggest mothers shouldn't work outside the home
On Wednesday night, Kirsten Gillibrand got into it with Joe Biden, whose decades-long record is basically a menu of terrible shit that is very worth getting into it over. The topic was Biden’s
to expanding a childcare tax credit while in the Senate in 1981, and a companion op-ed he wrote that argued day care centers and nursing homes were somehow emblematic of people’s “desire to avoid individual responsibility.”last Friday, while a senator, Biden made both a financial and a moral argument against expanding the childcare tax credit to all two-parent families, regardless of their income.
more well-off couples an incentive to, in his words, “forget their responsibility to take care of a child all day from the time the child is an infant until the time he or she gets in school” is “undesirable and wrong.” The Daily Times , the local newspaper in Salisbury, Maryland. In it, he linked the use of day care, as well as nursing homes, to what he called “the cancer of materialism.” It’s worth quoting his op-ed at length. Here’s Biden implying that people who would make use of the tax credit do so in order to get, among other things, a swimming pool:
If a couple enjoying such an income chooses to supplement it so they can go out and buy a larger home, a patio, a swimming pool or three weeks at the beach, that’s fine. They should do it on their own. I do not believe that the federal government should be a party to a system which encourages children in day-care centers in order to acquire material possessions that go far beyond any family basic necessities.
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