Here is an article about Warren’s proposal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-child-care.html
Here a copy of Carlson’s show you saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQIXjby5wKo
The argument from conservatives, as I can tell, is that this is pushing society in the wrong direction. It is an idea that says “we can give you free day care for your children so that you have more time to go work a job and earn money”. The idea is not geared supporting the family raising the children. The conservatives see that there are fewer problems with children overall when they are raised by their parents instead of daycare. The ideal would be supporting an economic effort that allows a single income to support the family allowing the children to be raised by the parents. This proposal is allowing the parents to spend their time supporting society, not the reverse.
Now in this show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MYxu-W2ozs Carlson points out that 15 years ago, Elizabeth Warren put out a book, “The Two-Income Trap” that points out exactly the idea of how a two income based society is tearing apart the families and is leading to all sorts of issues. Now she is flip-flopping, working to add to the “two-income trap”.
I have mixed feelings about this. I was a single parent through most of my children’s formative years. I had to use daycare for some of that and it can be expensive. So on the surface Warren’s proposal has appeal. But then I think back. There are many, many rules surrounding how a daycare operates now….standards for quality if you will. Yet many of the daycares are pretty sketchy. Stating that the daycares would have to meet federal guidelines for quality isn’t saying much…they already have to meet quality standards and many meet bare minimums.
Then I look at our public education because one of the benefits she says will be realized is that the daycare providers will be doing the job of teachers. Our public education system is poor. So, again, it comes down to what are we saying are acceptable standards? Our government accepts low standards, so why would this be any different? Our public schools have no discipline, many parents send their kids off to school and are not involved, expecting the school to raise their kids while they are there. But those same parents don’t want to empower the schools so they are failing. Education is a key to prosperity, health…pretty much everything good in our lives. But we are cranking out generations that are progressively getting more illiterate. We are one of the richest countries in the world and rank 15th in reading, 25th in math and 18th in science
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading
So saying our daycares are going to meet standards and are providers are going to be like teachers doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling. Personally, my kids did better when I took them out of daycare and had my sister-in-law watching them while I was at work. Being in a family setting seemed to be best for them.