A woman is pregnant for 9 months, if gainfully employed and barring complications, and .. I know of no woman that left work except the last, anywhere from a month to the day before.
She goes and has a baby and is generally back to work (if she must ... within a month ... usually about a week or two ... and her job was secure.
Last year' birth rate was about 4 million
Now, let's analyze this data.
4 million babies and child care
I don't know that many mama's (I live in rural Penn. and I left urban warfare in '76 ... so I am out of touch with urban numbers) who MUST work after the first year
Again, I don't know exact figures, but most mama's I know nurse their infants, eliminating the need for child care in the first 6 months to a year
(My first wife nursed for about 18 mo to 2 yrs) .. but then, she was always a stay at home Mom, home schooling and et cetera.
Kids go to official tax payer paid baby sitting at approx 6 yrs (kindergarten) so they are, at that time, out of the child care equation
SO ... what happens between birth and 6 ?
Assume first year at home
1-6 .. 5 yrs
I honestly don't know ANY child that went into pre K or pre school much younger than about 3 or 4 ..
3-6 ... 3 yrs
SO ... 4 million kids less the stay at homes (and almost NO ONE is working (check out the usual jobs for the unwed mama ... some octogenarian has the job so he or she can pay for health insurance) ...
In reality .... maybe 1 million babies really, really need day care
I think that's about 1% of the population
ONLY a million kids determining tax policy for all of the US for ever (unless and until Congress says NO!)
We don't need tax payer day care services
You display entirely too much logic to your argument.
You’d never be a successful government employee.