Hi Michelle,
I'm sort of putting this to the test with our local newspaper. I wrote a letter to the editor under the title: Trump Hit's a Home Run on Child Care.
I introduced his idea by explaining that Trump put forth his solution during the Q&A session of his presentation to the New York Economics Club 9/5/2024. Trump's answer to the rising cost of childcare follows verbatim:
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“Well I would do that. And we’re sitting down. You know I was somebody. We had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that because — look, child care is child care. It’s — couldn’t, you know, it’s something you have to have it — in this country you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to — but they’ll get used to it very quickly — and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have — I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just told you about. We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people, but we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about Make America Great Again, we have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation, so we’ll take care of it.”
~ Donald Trump, speaking at the New York Economic Club, 9/5/24
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Fake news, nope, look it up. It's all over the internet.
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C-Span-Scroll to 1:13:43 to listen to Trump's remarks on the rising costs of child care.
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?538141-1/president-trump-remarks-economic-club-york
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I write to our paper on a regular basis. It leans conservative. I wonder if they will print it. What would you do. I could only use the first 200 words or so to meet their 250 submission guidelines.