I doubt families that already have two parents would opt to eliminate one of the parents entirely when having one of the two parents stay at home would yield the same result. You wouldn’t need to be a single parent family, just a single earner.
Whatever added benefit this would be could be limited to two-parent/single-income homes, and not necessarily reduce any tax benefits that single parent homes already get. That way it doesn’t punish being a single parent, but also makes a two-parent/single income attainable for families that want the focused energy of one parent to stay in the home.
It could maybe be a percentage of what public schools receive per child., that way the homeschoolers get some funding, the public schools have less burden, and the gov’t saves some money.
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Ooooh, I like your point about the ability to more easily earn extra income with household overproduction. We have Cottage Laws for baked goods (there may be other applications I’m not aware of), at least here in Texas, but it would be better to encompass more of what is produced in the home (home cooked meals, canned goods, poultry/poultry products, garden products). We have Farmers Markets here, but sometimes the lesser production + cost of booth/commitment isn’t worth it, so there would need to be some brainstorming there regarding how to get small amounts of goods from many local producers to the local market efficiently…
This is a great idea but premature I think. We can speculate that the next four years are going to be a boon for the the American people. But if something like this was implemented to soon it would just be another handout program that would put a strain on the rest of the country. Long story short, this is a great program for Vance to implement in 4-6 years.
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But if it’s done as a tax cut on the breadwinner instead of free money to the stay-at-home parent, it’s not a handout.
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True, but I think what I was trying to say is that money needs to come from somewhere no mater if its a handout or a cut. Either way its an expense on the economy that needs to be covered. I’m just advocating caution and making sure that the money is there before anything was actually enacted.
I’d really like to agree with this idea because I appreciate it, as a SAHM myself, but I most definitely wouldn’t have worded it this way.
@Joe_Haller I agree with your take 100%. Thanks for sharing it.
Government doesn’t produce any marketable products, so any money paid to housewives/homemakers would come from everyone else. It is nobody’s responsibility to support my family but my own, and it is immoral to use threat of government force as a means of acquiring enrichment from others.
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I am for the huge taxbreak idea. Because many women are forced to go to work to support their kids, so its not fair to pay the ones who dont have to. That said, it is best for society when good moms can stay home to raise their children. It makes for a more stable early environment.
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My mother only worked from time to time and only part time. My parents sacrificed all kinds of luxury so this could happen. No new cars, no extra cable channels, no fancy vacations, carefully scanning for sales, thrifting before it was called thrifting. Nobody had to pay them to do this. They did it because they believed it was best for their children.
My husband and I homeschooled our son for grades 3-7, so I quit working during those 5 years and we scraped by on my husband’s salary, plus money from some odd jobs I did. We got by financially by having only 1 car, almost never eating out and taking local camping trips for vacations. We were poor but we had a lot of fun playing such an integral role in his education.
I’m not sure if “paying moms to stay home” would fly with conservatives, but a school voucher system for legitimate homeschooling families would make staying home with the kids and guiding their education more realistic.
And annual voucher for $10,000/year per homeschooling family would help a lot and could be free from income taxes. For example, if the father made $50,000/year, the family would actually make $60,000 (including the voucher) but be taxed on only $50,000.
When I was staying at home when my kids was in public school, I used to sell things I made at home to help pay the bills like baked goods, fresh eggs from my chickens or vegetables I grew in my backyard garden. I also took care of neighbors’ pets when they were out of town. Lots of ways to be creative.
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I would disagree, i think making it so people can do more with what they have would be better. This would be no different than welfare, i think while your idea comes from a good place why wouldnt a women just have a kid, say shes a stay at home mom and then get paid like 4x the average slary for the US worker? I think removing income tax, property tax, and making the US dollar stronger would be a much better approach. The US already has a massive amount of debt, the government shouldnt be allocating money for parents to do what theyve been doing since the dawn of humanity. The US government already intrudes on its citizens life too much, giving them more power over families would make things worse not better.
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Yes, because it incentivizes family values, whole families, strong families, disincentivizes divorce, poverty, pretty much every type of crime and drug addictions/ drug related issues in society, the like.
We SHOULD be proposing, I think, anything that would incentivize similar outcome such as these.
So YES, but perhaps in the form of educational subsidies for homeschooling, can be doubled if the parent is stay at home and does not work? Im sure there is a way to make it make economical sense!
I have been saying exactly this when talking to my adult kids. It would be great to see something like this happen. Our public school system is going downhill quickly.
I’m sorry but tax payers won’t pay you to stay home while they’re working & their kids are in daycare 
This is unfeasible. There’s no way that that could be a paid position. It would be seriously unliveable expense wise for the rest of us to finance. Plus, it’s never been paid throughout history clear back to Creation. No mother has even asked. No father has ever asked for this either. To repay all that he sacrifices to get up early to help with the family, go to work to support the family, be there for them afterward, to lose hours and even days of sleep over the road or when on business trips…I mean…are you bloody serious.?! Selfish doesn’t even begin to describe what asking for payment for rendering the basic function of your existence entails. Your payment is seeing the fruits of your tireless labor grow up as the young men and women they were born to be. Watching them take on the world and its challenges as only you could have prepared them for. Knowing that everything they have as knowledge YOU taught them. They know right from wrong because YOU taught them that. That is your pay. That is all the pay we as parents get to ask. There is no way they as our children could make it right, nor is it their job.
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This would cost the taxpayer too much money and is open for so many loopholes just like unemployment. The federal government should not be wasting our money on these types of choices which encourages mothers to become dependent on the government rather than contributing to the economy.
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Australia does this, a place to start in discussion of amounts.
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Stay a home moms or even dads, should consider themselves lucky to have a spouse or parnter with a good income to provide for the family, so you can stay at home to be with the children and take care of the home ect… in everything else that you do. Your physically capable of going to work and earning a paycheck if you want to. The ones who stay at home and can’t physically work, that need the check are the disabled. We should not spend tax payer dollars on stay at home parents.
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