The Belgian politician Connor Rousseau and his social-democratic Vooruit party want to require parents to send their children to daycare and kindergarten. There are still politicians who think of the children. And the logic is conclusive: The first six years of life are decisive for the future life of the child. That cannot be left to the parents. The state must take responsibility and release money. A few billion is enough to get the job done.
No one knows where that money will come from. But if necessary, some additional printing can be done. That is actually a way to make the population pay more taxes without them realizing it. Citizens nowadays pay barely 53 percent taxes. A little more loyalty to the state is welcome. Moreover, it is for their own good and that of their descendants. Citizens do not realize enough how important it is that their children are brought up well. Just as they do not realize that they cannot actually do that themselves and that the state must do it for them….