It’s Not Just Minnesota. The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam

[Kamaji]

It’s Not Just Minnesota. The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam

By: Joy Pullmann
January 01, 2026

Taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions more on completely ineffective daycare than even Somalis have been able to pilfer.

The Trump administration announced it is pausing all child-care payments to Minnesota in light of explosive revelations about Somali-saturated fraud rings siphoning billions from federal welfare programs. State officials in Ohio, where the second-largest Somali population resides in the United States, are begging for a federal fraud investigation there.

Viral videos of YouTuber Nick Shirley visiting childless “day care centers” in Minnesota expose that Democrats’ two-century practice of buying votes with welfare has now degraded below even offering a functioning cover story. To no thinking person’s surprise, the investigation reveals Democrats’ “affordable childcare” quest seeks the same as every other welfare program: kickbacks for the Democrat political machine. This is a major reason the Founders made federal welfare programs unconstitutional.

As shocking as the estimated $9 billion theft in Minnesota is, it rests upon an even deeper level of scammery. For if it is fraud to take taxpayer money for childcare while not providing it, isn’t it also fraud to take taxpayer money for early childhood development that actually damages early childhood development?

The truth is, “affordable childcare” is itself a scam. The billions spent on daycare result in worse outcomes for society than if these programs never existed. Industry researchers have known and lied about this for decades. Yes, that makes them frauds, too, and their mark — is there any other mark on the planet? — the endlessly spigoted American taxpayers.

$240 Billion for Zero Benefits

Americans have been inundated with preschool and daycare propaganda for an entire lifetime, all to serve the scam that is government displacement of families. We’ve been sold the endless growth of family-displacing welfare programs as good for children and society. Well, they are not good for children or society.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/01/its-not-just-minnesota-the-vast-majority-of-daycare-is-a-scam/

[andy58-in-nh]

What would happen if the government let families keep enough of their income so that one parent could afford to stay home and raise the children?   

[jmyrlefuller]

What would happen if the government let families keep enough of their income so that one parent could afford to stay home and raise the children?

Economic equilibrium would shift so that the two-income families would raise the standard of living to make a one-income household impossible again. More disposable income leads to inflation.

[mountaineer]

We should take a survey: how many of us were raised in a daycare vs. being raised by our own parents?

[Hoodat]

Working parents already receive a tax credit for daycare costs.  That is different from the scandal here where the government is making direct payments to daycare centers whether the parents work or not.

Daycare itself isn't the problem.  It's direct government payments to daycare centers that are the problem.

[mountaineer]

Daycare is not the responsibility of the federal government (i.e., U.S. taxpayers).

[berdie]

We should take a survey: how many of us were raised in a daycare vs. being raised by our own parents?

Raised by parents. After the "Great Divide" I took care of my younger brothers. I can't say I knew anyone that went to a daycare back in the day. Maybe one or two went to private sitters. Daycare was, and still is, too expensive.

[Smokin Joe]

We should take a survey: how many of us were raised in a daycare vs. being raised by our own parents?

Raised by Parents, but Grandparents, Uncles, and Aunts were all in the picture, too, so Mom and Dad get top billing, but the cast of characters is large, indeed.

[Fishrrman]

Medicaid [fraudulent] daycare:
Don't "fix" it.
NIX it.