The search for a working-class conservatism winds up in a familiar union-busting place.

This is the best child allowance proposal to date.

It is an interesting but ultimately silly and low-stakes debate.

Phaseouts are taxes that are accounted as spending reductions.

No.

Directly solving the problem of meatpacking collusion should be pretty easy.

Means-testing is a revenue-raising tax done very stupidly and inefficiently.

A solid child allowance that is also sneakily better than the Dem parental leave plan.

Cutting incomes does not help kids dealing with bad or irresponsible parents.

Over one in three kids live in a non-participating state.

Republicans are making legitimate points against a half-baked proposal.

The distributive case for providing benefits to everyone is a lot stronger than many realize.

A dual-earner family with $90,000 of income is over the cliff in year one.

Passing BBB only gets us half of the way to enacting the pre-k and childcare plans.

Not very much.

The first three years of the program were basically eliminated.

This plan just keeps getting worse.

Wage and quality mandates mean unsubsidized parents will take a beating.

Letting states decide whether to implement the child care plan could be a disaster.

It looks like old habits die hard in the Democratic party.