Fox News' Tucker Carlson really doesn't like Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) child-care plan, but for a fairly unexpected reason.
The Democratic candidate for president in 2020 on Tuesday had unveiled a new child-care proposal, explaining that the federal government would "partner with local providers ... to create a network of child-care options that would be available to every family." Access would be free for families who make less than 200 percent of the income determined as the federal poverty line, while families who make more would pay no more than 7 percent of their income for child-care.
Carlson, let's just say, was no fan of this idea, going after it Wednesday night by dismissing it as a "daycare scheme" and claiming that Warren is arguing that "the American dream is not raising your own children. The American dream is outsourcing their upbringing to government caretakers while their parents scurry back to work as good little servants of globalized market capitalism."
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Carlson concluded that "the need for government daycare specialists will no doubt be used to justify more immigration" and that Democrats have decided to "outsource parenting." Watch the clip below, via Media Matters. Brendan Morrow
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