As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit the workforce

Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by threeseed on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:28PM (#38108247)

If you think about what you wrote it doesn't actually add up.

If you're both staying at home and paying each other X then where did you get the money from to generate X.

You would've had to do some economic producing activity.

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Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by aidenn0 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:33PM (#38108287)

I hand you $100 and you hand me $100. We can do that until the paper currency wears out and generate huge amounts of GDP!

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Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by chii on Thursday November 02, 2023 @09:16AM (#38113085)

If you do this legitimately, you both slowly lose money to taxation.

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Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by BolexNOLA on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:31PM (#38108277)

Their partners’ respective salaries

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