New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law

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ChrisArchitect•28 minutes ago

Some previous discussion, before it was signed in:

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All (2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46015763

exabrial•about 4 hours ago

Nobody is opposed to people obtaining child care. Making it affordable and accessible are noteworthy and desirable goals.

The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.

aagha•about 2 hours ago

So Norway's decades-old social healthcare system is just full of fraud?

What's your proof?

bsder•about 2 hours ago

> The inevitable and unfortunate result of "handing out 'free' stuff" however will always be widespread fraud.

The optimal amount of fraud is not "zero".

The goal is to enforce just enough to keep the fraud below a threshold while not making it too onerous for the people who need and receive the benefit.

And, if you really want to go after fraud, you are far better going after the people who commit it at an organized institutional level: see GOP leadership in Florida and Medicare.

lovich•about 2 hours ago

One of the points of universal type programs is that everyone can get it so what’s to defraud.

add-sub-mul-div•about 3 hours ago

People overemphasize the fraud with what they don't like and ignore the fraud that goes on with the things they do like.

Ancalagon•about 3 hours ago

You mean like all that fraud Musk found in the social security system?

nxm•about 5 hours ago

Paid for from oil and gas revenues

smithoc•about 5 hours ago

And schools get funding from lotteries and casinos, and healthcare gets funding from alcohol and cigarette sales.

A good thing funded by taxes on a bad thing is pretty common in America.

Ancalagon•about 6 hours ago

huge achievement. congratulations to all involved

New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law

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