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Responding to Idaho Capital Sun Article linked in The Idaho Voter Substack 3/10/23 (https://theidahovoter.substack.com/i/107428228/day-care-groups-cry-foul-over-budget-cuts)

Daycare groups’ dependency on ARPA money shows just how addicted they and others have become to “free” government money: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/03/08/idaho-parents-child-care-providers-ask-legislature-to-reverse-budget-cuts-as-closures-begin/

I am so disappointed in Americans who fail to champion rugged individualism, meritocracy, and competition to thrive. People should never count on outside money that they don’t earn themselves. This may seem harsh, but living within or below your means is the only honest route to success.

ARPA money is NOT free. It is money taken from American taxpayers throughout the country (or simply printed by the government) to fund preferred groups in different parts of the country.

ARPA money is wrong and has been from the start; it is redistribution of wealth — socialism — and it has come with so many strings attached that the puppets are all tangled now.

House Speaker Moyle and Senate Pro Tem Winder should call out this addiction to other people’s money and do everything they can to stop it. It’s time for some tough love, especially for the government but also for the people who have become dependent upon it.

ARPA is money the government doled out to try to solve problems the government created in the first place (e.g., forced lockdowns, business closures, mandates, and inflationary policies). We must stop this enabling behavior, cut off this money NOW, and never again let dependency become the norm in America’s psyche.

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