Opponents of Florida’s ballot initiative to greatly cut property taxes, both Republicans and Democrats, have been scaremongering voters with predictions of the bad things that will happen once they aren’t stealing your money. The latest is telling parents how localities won’t be able to afford sponsoring summer camp, and this is bad because poor parents rely on summer camp as a free daycare program.
Why am I forced to pay for daycare for someone else’s crotch fruit? Get your sperms donor to pay his child support.
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ghostsniper · July 24, 2026 at 6:12 am
I went to summer camp in my early teens (late 1960s) and my parents paid for it. If they hadn’t paid for it I wouldn’t have went, obviously.
What was once optional is now considered essential.
TRX · July 24, 2026 at 6:20 am
Also note that public school is de facto daycare, given how completely it fails at its purported “education” mission.
Every summer you have the rabble complaining that they have to find some way to control their children during the months school isn’t in session. “Free” school – down to kindergarten, preschool, and sometimes outright daycare in some places – is a place to park their spawn during the day.
I pay for “free” daycare via my real estate taxes. It’s something like 65% of my annual tax bill. Even though I have no children, it’s “fair” that I pay for it, and the people with the most children, who tend not to be property owners, ride on my back. That’s called “democracy”, I think.
Steve · July 24, 2026 at 6:30 am
The next step will be Washington Monument syndrome where essential services will be cut to teach the voters via pain, not to interfere with our funding. Note, it is always the essential services that get cut, rather than any pork or waste.