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For Friday’s edition of their biased “What Matters” series, where they talk solely to Democratic voters, NBC Nightly News was in the kitchen of 2020 hopeful, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker to talk about how to pay for childcare. Of course, as the network did when hawking the “Big Idea” from Democrats on paid family leave, they’ve been ignoring Republicans solutions to the problem.
“It's also outrageous. In most states in America, daycare for children, childcare for children is more expensive than the college tuition at your state university,” the Democratic Senator told NBC correspondent Harry Smith.
To that, Smith made the pitch to NBC viewers:
Booker's answer, using government funds to limit the cost of childcare to seven percent of parents' salaries. And expanding tax credits to Americans who stay home to take care of children or aging parents.
NBC treated the expanding tax credits as a concept cooked up by Democratic lawmakers. But in reality, the GOP tax cuts of 2017 doubled the child tax credit to $2,000 per child. A fact the liberal media largely downplayed while whipping up anti-Republican hysteria at the time.
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