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Re:Kentucky made child care free for child care workers. It'... by sethammons on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:36PM (#37795222)
I pay $500/mo in property tax. If I were to watch kids to pay my rent to the government, it would take at least one full time kid. That is residential; I assume commercial tax rate would be higher. And that one kid may represent 10-25% of a caregiver's capacity.
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Re:Kentucky made child care free for child care workers. It'... by Ericson2314 on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:41PM (#37796803)
Once we improve the tax to be a land value tax, and get rid of the stupid blockers of development, you can convert your house into an apartment and pay way less tax.

If you are a tenant in cross-subsidized apartment building, it is really easy to work as a building-wide childcare. You want to live in as big a building as possible to have as much addressable market as possible. (Basically you might not be the best nanny but you want as many kids as ludicrously conveniently nearby as possible.)

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