>>>>>>Luckily, it's all in the past now, well, most of it.
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>>>>>Eh... I beg to differ. Most of what you describe here still is there in the Netherlands, though in less quantity. We don't get a year off, but arround 16 weeks arround the birth of a child. Daycare is partly funded by the government and affordable for most up here. We have something called kinderbijslag, which is a fund from which you receive some money every month to grow up your kids. It is not much, but just enough to make a difference to the poor. We also have the 'patronage nurse' over here, that would visit the new member of the family once or twice. And then we visit her regulary at her place to check out whether the child is developping normally until the age of 4 (i think).
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>>>>Just wait until the West enforces democracy on you.
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>>>Or capitalism... LOL
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>>Or behavior control...oh wait.
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>>- daycare is partly funded by fellow taxpayers
>>- kinderbijslag - which is a fund from which you receive some money funded by fellow taxpayers
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>So what ?!?
>You pay taxes, we pay taxes. Above means that we get more in return.
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>What do you get there for paying for taxes ? Freedom to pay everything from your pocket ?

Perhaps you see daycare spending and kinderbijslag as within the proper role of the State. I do not. It breeds conformity and restrains the individual by sequestering the fruits of their labor for those who have done nothing to achieve those fruits except fail to afford the very offspring they chose to bring into the world. It's being paid to be a baby factory and its detrimental. See welfare moms.