Is ‘Quality Child Care’ an Economic Oxymoron?

Your article “Operation: Superior Child Care” (June 4) is so biased by the liberal agenda that it should have been in the Opinion section. The most important sentence is deep in the article: “Such fees [that are charged to parents] do not cover the costs of operations, so the Defense Department picks up the balance.”

“High quality child care” is an economic oxymoron because if salaries are raised to levels that are necessary to attract qualified care givers, the service becomes too expensive for working parents. And who will pay for the subsidies that some advocate? Taxpayers, of course, many of whom are parents who are forced to work because taxes are already so high!

Give up, liberals. You’re never going to be able to design a system that makes more sense than having parents take care of their own children.

--RICHARD SHOWSTACK

Newport Beach