March 31, 2026 • 28 mins
A new bill in the Nebraska Legislature could put taxpayers on the hook for childcare. It is just another government program that taxpayers will end up funding. Caller opinions included.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're going to have to have a discussion. The Uni Cameral,
the greatest deliberative body in the history of all deliberative bodies,
is moving forward with a child care subsidy bill. In
other words, some people can get their childcare paid for
(00:22):
by your imperial government. I'm sure that that would be
helpful to some Yeah, okay, but I just want to
ask you the question, very simple. Should government be subsidizing childcare?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Chris, Oh, Chris, how could you bring this up? It's
really easy. It's a local story and it affects everybody
in the state of Nebraska. So of course I'm going
to bring it up.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It'd be a lot easier for me to bring it
up if I would not have lost the story. As
I sat right here, Peyton, you're a witness. I haven't moved.
I had the story, I pull it up to talk
about it, and now it has disappeared. You have a
(01:15):
it is run away. Oh here it is. There we go.
I got a lot of paper. I got a lot
of paper. All right. So a proposal that supporters say
is key to making Nebraska childcare more affordable so more
parents can stay in the workforce took a step forward
(01:37):
on Monday, despite objections that businesses, not government, should bear
the brunt of the cost. Can I just stop right
there for just a moment, if you don't mind, why
should business or government bear the cost of childcare? I'm
(01:59):
just cure now. Obviously childcare is expensive. I don't know
why it costs so much because they don't pay the
workers anything. It's like, it's a shame what they pay
these people. But that's you know, up to whoever owns
said childcare. So what they want to keep is an
(02:19):
income eligibility level that came into play during COVID. And
during COVID, somebody said, hey, you know, we ought to
do we ought to try to help people with the
childcare so that, you know, so you can go to
work and wear your dumb mask or whatever. But the
(02:40):
childcare subsidy program, yeah, I don't. I'm just not comfortable
with it. I mean, I get it, I understand it,
but I don't know. Here's an interesting idea, Peyton. You
might want to write this down. I think I have
an interesting idea. Okay, uh, why don't you idiots and
(03:02):
Lincoln try to figure out a way to quit tax
in the daylights out of people, So then we don't
have to have this discussion of having having dependency on
our imperial government in order to take care of children.
I mean, has anybody thought of that. I heard our
fabulous mayor today, uh talking about bike lanes and that
(03:27):
that bike snob really annoyed me. But when she was
talking about not mayors, not the mayor that she's Gene
Stothard and by the way, an awesome, awesome person. But
you know, the discussion was about how much it costs
to register your vehicle here in the state of Nebraska.
(03:50):
It's ridiculous, all right. We got taxes and fees and
all kinds of nonsense. And so I just find it
amazed using that a legislature that is already bending over
backwards to try to cover a deficit in their balanced
budget amendment, right, that what are they doing? We're just
(04:13):
stacking more money on the on the tab. At least
that's that's the way that I interpret it. Wendy Deboor
of Omaha made the bill her priority for the seat
for the session. Well, good for you, ma'am. The subsidy,
she calls the subsidy necessary infrastructure for the state's economy.
(04:37):
Well again, I'm gonna here we go where we're coming
up with brand spanking new. We're coming up with brand
spanking new descriptions and language. Right. Uh, A subsidy for
childcare is not uh uh hang on a childcare subsidy
(05:00):
program at the higher kepa bah bah Okay, here we go.
The subsidy necessary? Is necessary? Infrastructure? No, it's not. Infrastructure
is roads, bridges, you know, things like that. Parking That
to me is infrastructure. Am I missing something here? And
again I understand what they're saying, but I mean, goodness, gracious,
(05:24):
why is it that we always loot the taxpayer whenever
there's a problem. It's necessary infrastructure for the state's economy.
I don't even know how you come to that conclusion.
Infrastructure is not childcare paid for by the government, And
how did we get put on the hook for this?
(05:45):
That's what I'd like to know. Quote, if we're ever
able to successfully incentivize businesses to come to our state,
we need a basic investment in childcare structure. All right,
here we go, using another one of those moonbat buzzwords. Investment.
(06:06):
It's not an investment. An investment is something that has
a demonstratable return. So what is the demonstratable return in
having the government or me, you, the taxpayer pay for
people's childcare. I mean, how many times do we have
(06:27):
to go through this mess because just I'm sorry, now
I'm getting frustrated, Peyton, hang on, serenity now, Serenity now,
serenity now, serenity now. I don't understand why we have
to put this on the taxpayer. Childcare is really expensive. Okay,
(06:54):
then why don't we not tax the living daylight side
of people in this state so that they can afford
their childcare? Or how about this, maybe you could give
a I don't know, how about a oh, maybe a
corporation can get a tax break. I mean, we're all
about the Tiff. Everything's Tiff. Why don't we just tiff
(07:16):
finance childcare while we're at it, because that is a
miraculous strategy to do this, right. I mean, Tiff is
the best, So why don't we try it that way?
You know, give these businesses. There are many businesses around
the country that offer childcare on site for their employees
(07:37):
who have kids and need childcare. So, in fact, my wonderful,
talented niece works for a big company in Dallas, and
that's one of the perks they offer childcare. It's in house.
It's right there in the big building they work in.
So during lunch, if you want to go check on
(07:59):
your kids and wipe their nose or do whatever you
can do that maybe we could incentivize businesses to provide this.
But why are you coming to the taxpayer? Right? Like me? Okay,
I got one kid left in the house, so why
do I got to pay for yours? Am I being selfish?
(08:21):
All right? Four O two five five, eight eleven ten.
It is a Chris Baker show. You could always give
us a call. You could hit us on the talkback button.
That's something very good, you know. You just open up
your iHeart app and hit the little mic button and
you can tell us whatever it is that you really
want to say. Or you can always hit us with
(08:42):
an email Chris at kfab dot com. Now, I'm not
don't get me wrong, Okay, I'm not trying to demonize
people who have children and are having a hard time
making ends meet because they got to pay childcare and
they got to send mom to uh to work every day. Right,
(09:05):
I'm not pounded on you, because, let's be honest, if
you are a pro life person. Aren't you happy they
had their babies? Well, me too, So then maybe I'm wrong,
and maybe this is a good idea. I don't know.
(09:28):
We'll see. It's Chris, So here's we're talking about. So
the unicameral, the world's greatest deliberative body ever in the
history of all deliberated bodies, have decided that it is
workforce infrastructure to uh loot you to pay for other
(09:48):
people's childcare. And also, I'm just gonna throw out the
obligatory here. It's just another thing that later certain politicians
can run on. Oh, if you don't elect me, they're
gonna take away your childcare. Scare everybody. All right, here's
(10:09):
a great email from Christopher. Dear Chris, all these lazy
people that had to make minimum wage fifteen bucks an
hour apparently didn't take an economics lesson to realize what
the impact will be long term. Oh, we don't pay
our childcare and teachers enough? Then it's I ohe how
(10:30):
much for childcare? Man? I need help from the government.
I don't know why government has to have their hands
in everything? And man, do I agree with that? Get
out of my life? Leave me alone, all right? Go
kill some terrorists, and I guess that's really it. I'm
sure there's some other functions I would approve of. All right,
(10:51):
let's get some phone calls. Four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Should your Nebraska government be paying
for your childcare? Of course, there's minimums you got to
make below a certain amount, and blah blah blah. But
you do realize that before I even said it, it's
(11:11):
already come true because this started in twenty twenty one
during the pandemic. And what we always say, once you
bring in a government program, you're never going to get
rid of it, and it always ends up costing you
more money. So here we are in twenty twenty six,
and people in the unicamrale would like to keep the
(11:34):
rate the same. In other words, whatever affected you, if
you were able to make it in under the wire
to get this subsidy, they're going to keep it at
that rate, even though there's no pandemic. You follow me,
it's a government thing. It'll never go away, it'll start
costing you more money, and already it's done it. So there,
(11:58):
here's Keith Await minute, here's Brett on news radio eleven Kaby. Hello, Brett.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
How you doing, Chris?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Great, sir, well, I.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Wanted to welcome you back, and I cannot.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Wait until November when you can tell that story when your.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Son to you dear hunting again.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, real quick, No, we raised four kids.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
We paid our own childcare, We had to pay our
own health care.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm tired of subsidies. What happens is is with the
healthcare no different than the or with the childcare, no
different than the healthcare. They got used to give you
that free stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Now they're off spending that money elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But they didn't have to designate to healthcare or to childcare.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
How did we make it?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I understand things cost more now, but people make more now.
I mean obviously, like the emailer said, fifteen dollars an hour,
I mean everything, everything the government puts their hand goes
to Crown.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, you know a lot of yup. I'm sure that
there are good things that they've done, but you know,
you made a very good comparison COVID. Right. Remember we
talked about just for a brief bit yesterday, but the
COVID federal subsidies were supposed to be temporary. Well guess
what now they want to make them permanent. And what happened.
(13:27):
Oh no, the subsidies will be great. No, it's just temporary.
We're not going to need them for so long because
our brilliant government healthcare plan is going to work out
so well and we're all going to be rich and
it's gonna be seventy two degrees in sunny every day.
So then what happens now they want to keep those
subsidies permanent. All right, let's go back to the phones,
(13:49):
Mary and welcome the news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Hey, I want to comments about this childcare. It kind
of reminds me of when they go and started subsidizing universities.
They put more money in, the rates go up for universities,
tuition goes up, and government with more, and then tuition
goes up again and people are end they up spending
a whole lot more than any but with all they
would just because the government gather knows in it. So
(14:14):
I think it'll happen with this also.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh yeah, see, once once they start taking your money
to give to somebody else, they're certainly not going to stop.
I appreciate the call, Mary Anne. Look at that. Mary
Anne gets in Boom makes her point. Boom, she's out.
Way to go, Mary Anne, you did your talk radio caller.
Uh oh, well it would have been funni here she
(14:39):
went to talk radio caller school. All right, four h
two five eleven ten. Let's talk to Joe on the
Chris Bakers Show. Welcome Joe, Thank Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'm just going to say, welcome back, thank you, thank you.
How about this child care? You know, I don't think
it should be from the stage, brought up something about
the pro life people that he should be happy that
they all had their kids. Yeah, several taxes goes, you know,
three hundred and sixty five million dollars a year the
(15:13):
planned parenthood to pay for abortions. Instead of that, I
didn't have no control over. I can't stand that my
money is doing that. Instead of that, I wouldn't have
a problem with him helping out. I don't care on
the fence, not because my taxes are already getting pillaged. Right,
how about to do some kind of good with it
(15:34):
instead of evil like abortions.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Wow? I all right, sir, Well listen, thanks for that perspective.
Look at that. Now there's a guy stepping up to
the table. Look, I want people if they if they
if a woman gets pregnant, I want him to bring
that kid into the world. And if I got to
pay a little extra, Okay, there you go. That's a
(15:57):
giver right there. That's a good guy Chris Biker program.
You know the thing is the more free stuff. Well
they call it free stuff we get from government. What
do we do we get? We get some money from
government to pay for childcare. So now we're thinking, well, hell,
the government's taking care of childcare. I can go buy that.
(16:17):
I can go buy that custom car I've been wanting.
I can use the money the way I want. Maybe
the problem is that people just need to be honest
about their economic situation. Okay, good luck that happening. Maybe
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(18:16):
Chris Baker Show News Radio eleventon kfby. Imagine that me
wanting to start a fight with somebody. What are the odds?
All right, So here's what we're talking about early on.
So the unicameral is meeting and they want to continue
the childcare subsidies the levels that were set in twenty
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twenty one during the pandemic. Now Senator Kathleen cow who's
pretty cool, said no, this was these eligibility levels were
lowered during COVID. That was actual situation. Now there is
(19:03):
no COVID, so we should go back to the original levels. Well,
the some members of the UA camera the world's greatest
delivered a body ever in the history of all deliberate
to bodies. They don't want to do that. They want
to keep them low, you see, So then voters will
owe them. All right, that's my take, all right, because
(19:26):
in my humble opinion, government doesn't do or does well.
I mean, benevolent action of the government is rare, actual
benevolent action. They like to tell you, oh yeah, we're
here to hope. Now you're here to gum up the works.
(19:47):
So apparently it costs thirteen grand a year for childcare
I don't know. I never put my kids in childcare.
You know what we did at our house. We would
just put the kids in a dog cage and then
go to work and we would just leave a bowl
of water and some food and then the kids. No,
(20:08):
I'm kidding, I made that up. That's not true. We
didn't put them in a dog cage. It was more
like a pen. All right, I'm made that up too.
So anyway, I just want to know why in the
world the state of Nebraska and the Feds have to
pay for childcare for people. Where does this end? Oh?
(20:28):
I know what it ends, with a guaranteed income and
government controlling every aspect of your life. Some of them
would love to do it that way, all right is
see Chris Baker program on news radio eleven to ten
kfab Lots of email coming in on the Chris Baker Show.
Let's see are you kidding me? No? No, no, no, no, no,
(20:52):
no no no. I'll even go one step further, Chris,
I think you ought to have to pull a license
or a perm to even have children. Oh, good lord,
you need to prove your financially stable enough. No, I'm
not gonna go that far out. I need to government.
(21:12):
Get just leave me alone. You know, I'll tell you
something very interesting. You know, I'm a big observer of life.
I study society, That's what I've done. I did it
as a comic and a writer, and a radio talk
host and a ballerina. So I've always been involved, right,
And you know what's really interesting, how average everyday people
(21:36):
get along just fine. Here's an example. Saw video recently
a car crashed and burst into flames. All these people
went running over to that car to try to get
the person in the car out of the car, despite
the fact that things burning and could possibly explode, and
(22:01):
there were white people and black people and men and women.
There was just it was a real diversity makeup of
people that were all there to try to drag somebody
out of a burning car. And they did. And if
you really think about it, we get along just fine
until some jackass with governments start shoving their face in
(22:25):
our business. And then for the person from government to
get what they want done, well, they got to make
some people fight each other and stuff. People get along
just fine. Right. I saw a kid fall in a
swimming pool, couldn't swim. Guy comes in, dives in the pool,
(22:45):
brings him up, gave him mouth to mouth, saved his life. Yay,
guess what, they weren't all the same race, right, I
don't know of anybody, and I'm a white honkey cracker guy,
so I'm gonna beak for the white hockey cracker guys.
I don't know one white honkey cracker guy that would
(23:07):
ignore another person of another race or gender in trouble.
Never seen it, Never seen it at all. I'm why
I've driven by seeing people changing tires for people. People
in general are really good and we're not caught up
(23:27):
in all this. Well, I got to make sure I
have this many of this guy and this many of
that guy, because we've got to make sure. We've got
to measure our diversity. This just doesn't happen. People are
People in general are very very good. So what does
this have to do with government paying for childcare? Well,
(23:50):
because people are generally really good. So a business owner
who realizes, you know what, I would have a much
happy your staff if we made childcare an in house operation, right,
that would be good. Or how about just give them
a tax deduction instead of a subsidy, which is a
(24:14):
big fat check coming from the government every month. Well,
why don't you just let him write it off? How's that? Now?
I think there is part of tax law. I don't know.
I got a guy that does taxes at the Baker
House and it's not me. But isn't there a rite
off for childcare? Isn't there a tax deduction one can
(24:38):
take for childcare? That answer? I don't really know, but
it might be a better idea. I'm sure there's got
to be something. I don't know. We'll look it up
and get you the stuff. So there you go. So
that anyway, that's a I don't know why that people
want us to pay for child once again, another government
(25:02):
program that will never go away? All right, Chris Baker
radio program on news Radio eleven ten k f A.
B Uh, let me just give you another example government.
I mean, I don't want this to, you know, be
the I Hate government show all the time, and I
(25:23):
guess maybe it's turning into that. I don't know. Let's see,
hang on a second, d I'm trying to find god
the okay, all right, got it all right? Here we go. So, uh,
some bureaucrat was on I think Fox or whatever, one
(25:45):
of those shows where the girls have short skirts and
their legs are always crossed. You know, that was a
that was a whatever, I'm not I'm gonna get sidetracked.
So here's here's a guy, a member of the House
of Representatives, I'm pretty sure, and they ask him, well,
what about this idea that you don't pay congressmen and
(26:09):
senators if there is a government shut down? So listen
to this idiot.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
But do you support the idea that members of Congress
are the ones that should not get paid if there's
a government shut down in the future.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Look, we are trying to resolve differences that people have
this notion that somehow Congress is separate from the American people,
and we're holding it up because we just don't know. Look,
there's a lot of passion on this issue. You will
agree with this. I saw the interview that you did
just before this. People who want more enforcement. I got
people in my district who are upset about what ICE
agents are doing and they want protection from that. We're
(26:44):
not fighting over who gets the TV remote.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
No, I'm just saying that if there's going to be
another not answered the question, the TSA agents and those
and the government workers that are making forty five thousand
dollars a year, they go a month without a paycheck,
that it matters to them.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Absolutely, yeah, no, they should get PA. But also it's
kind of written into the constitution that you can't use
the pay of representatives as a leverage point on how
to get policy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I think that can Oh yeah, look at that down.
We don't want to take my payaway. Don't take my payaway. Hot,
They're all such phonies. Peyton Highlock was able to clarify
the Child Dependent Care Credit little tax deduction, a non
refundable credit for expenses paid for care of a child
(27:31):
under thirteen. What if you're mentally under thirteen? Can my
wife get a deduction? I think that would be good.
That's good anyway. Maximum credit is thirty five percent of
three thousand dollars, so that's about one thousand and fifty
for one kid. Wow, that's a big help, all right,
So can we you know, maybe look at that. That
(27:52):
might be a better way to handle this, a better
way to do this, making it big, making a big
tax deduction. I think it would be the greatest thing
ever in the history of greatest things ever. That's what
I'm saying. I'm Chris Baker and I thank you for
your attention to this matter.
We're going to have to have a discussion. The Uni Cameral,
the greatest deliberative body in the history of all deliberative bodies,
is moving forward with a child care subsidy bill. In
other words, some people can get their childcare paid for
(00:22):
by your imperial government. I'm sure that that would be
helpful to some Yeah, okay, but I just want to
ask you the question, very simple. Should government be subsidizing childcare?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Chris, Oh, Chris, how could you bring this up? It's
really easy. It's a local story and it affects everybody
in the state of Nebraska. So of course I'm going
to bring it up.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It'd be a lot easier for me to bring it
up if I would not have lost the story. As
I sat right here, Peyton, you're a witness. I haven't moved.
I had the story, I pull it up to talk
about it, and now it has disappeared. You have a
(01:15):
it is run away. Oh here it is. There we go.
I got a lot of paper. I got a lot
of paper. All right. So a proposal that supporters say
is key to making Nebraska childcare more affordable so more
parents can stay in the workforce took a step forward
(01:37):
on Monday, despite objections that businesses, not government, should bear
the brunt of the cost. Can I just stop right
there for just a moment, if you don't mind, why
should business or government bear the cost of childcare? I'm
(01:59):
just cure now. Obviously childcare is expensive. I don't know
why it costs so much because they don't pay the
workers anything. It's like, it's a shame what they pay
these people. But that's you know, up to whoever owns
said childcare. So what they want to keep is an
(02:19):
income eligibility level that came into play during COVID. And
during COVID, somebody said, hey, you know, we ought to
do we ought to try to help people with the
childcare so that, you know, so you can go to
work and wear your dumb mask or whatever. But the
(02:40):
childcare subsidy program, yeah, I don't. I'm just not comfortable
with it. I mean, I get it, I understand it,
but I don't know. Here's an interesting idea, Peyton. You
might want to write this down. I think I have
an interesting idea. Okay, uh, why don't you idiots and
(03:02):
Lincoln try to figure out a way to quit tax
in the daylights out of people, So then we don't
have to have this discussion of having having dependency on
our imperial government in order to take care of children.
I mean, has anybody thought of that. I heard our
fabulous mayor today, uh talking about bike lanes and that
(03:27):
that bike snob really annoyed me. But when she was
talking about not mayors, not the mayor that she's Gene
Stothard and by the way, an awesome, awesome person. But
you know, the discussion was about how much it costs
to register your vehicle here in the state of Nebraska.
(03:50):
It's ridiculous, all right. We got taxes and fees and
all kinds of nonsense. And so I just find it
amazed using that a legislature that is already bending over
backwards to try to cover a deficit in their balanced
budget amendment, right, that what are they doing? We're just
(04:13):
stacking more money on the on the tab. At least
that's that's the way that I interpret it. Wendy Deboor
of Omaha made the bill her priority for the seat
for the session. Well, good for you, ma'am. The subsidy,
she calls the subsidy necessary infrastructure for the state's economy.
(04:37):
Well again, I'm gonna here we go where we're coming
up with brand spanking new. We're coming up with brand
spanking new descriptions and language. Right. Uh, A subsidy for
childcare is not uh uh hang on a childcare subsidy
(05:00):
program at the higher kepa bah bah Okay, here we go.
The subsidy necessary? Is necessary? Infrastructure? No, it's not. Infrastructure
is roads, bridges, you know, things like that. Parking That
to me is infrastructure. Am I missing something here? And
again I understand what they're saying, but I mean, goodness, gracious,
(05:24):
why is it that we always loot the taxpayer whenever
there's a problem. It's necessary infrastructure for the state's economy.
I don't even know how you come to that conclusion.
Infrastructure is not childcare paid for by the government, And
how did we get put on the hook for this?
(05:45):
That's what I'd like to know. Quote, if we're ever
able to successfully incentivize businesses to come to our state,
we need a basic investment in childcare structure. All right,
here we go, using another one of those moonbat buzzwords. Investment.
(06:06):
It's not an investment. An investment is something that has
a demonstratable return. So what is the demonstratable return in
having the government or me, you, the taxpayer pay for
people's childcare. I mean, how many times do we have
(06:27):
to go through this mess because just I'm sorry, now
I'm getting frustrated, Peyton, hang on, serenity now, Serenity now,
serenity now, serenity now. I don't understand why we have
to put this on the taxpayer. Childcare is really expensive. Okay,
(06:54):
then why don't we not tax the living daylight side
of people in this state so that they can afford
their childcare? Or how about this, maybe you could give
a I don't know, how about a oh, maybe a
corporation can get a tax break. I mean, we're all
about the Tiff. Everything's Tiff. Why don't we just tiff
(07:16):
finance childcare while we're at it, because that is a
miraculous strategy to do this, right. I mean, Tiff is
the best, So why don't we try it that way?
You know, give these businesses. There are many businesses around
the country that offer childcare on site for their employees
(07:37):
who have kids and need childcare. So, in fact, my wonderful,
talented niece works for a big company in Dallas, and
that's one of the perks they offer childcare. It's in house.
It's right there in the big building they work in.
So during lunch, if you want to go check on
(07:59):
your kids and wipe their nose or do whatever you
can do that maybe we could incentivize businesses to provide this.
But why are you coming to the taxpayer? Right? Like me? Okay,
I got one kid left in the house, so why
do I got to pay for yours? Am I being selfish?
(08:21):
All right? Four O two five five, eight eleven ten.
It is a Chris Baker show. You could always give
us a call. You could hit us on the talkback button.
That's something very good, you know. You just open up
your iHeart app and hit the little mic button and
you can tell us whatever it is that you really
want to say. Or you can always hit us with
(08:42):
an email Chris at kfab dot com. Now, I'm not
don't get me wrong, Okay, I'm not trying to demonize
people who have children and are having a hard time
making ends meet because they got to pay childcare and
they got to send mom to uh to work every day. Right,
(09:05):
I'm not pounded on you, because, let's be honest, if
you are a pro life person. Aren't you happy they
had their babies? Well, me too, So then maybe I'm wrong,
and maybe this is a good idea. I don't know.
(09:28):
We'll see. It's Chris, So here's we're talking about. So
the unicameral, the world's greatest deliberative body ever in the
history of all deliberated bodies, have decided that it is
workforce infrastructure to uh loot you to pay for other
(09:48):
people's childcare. And also, I'm just gonna throw out the
obligatory here. It's just another thing that later certain politicians
can run on. Oh, if you don't elect me, they're
gonna take away your childcare. Scare everybody. All right, here's
(10:09):
a great email from Christopher. Dear Chris, all these lazy
people that had to make minimum wage fifteen bucks an
hour apparently didn't take an economics lesson to realize what
the impact will be long term. Oh, we don't pay
our childcare and teachers enough? Then it's I ohe how
(10:30):
much for childcare? Man? I need help from the government.
I don't know why government has to have their hands
in everything? And man, do I agree with that? Get
out of my life? Leave me alone, all right? Go
kill some terrorists, and I guess that's really it. I'm
sure there's some other functions I would approve of. All right,
(10:51):
let's get some phone calls. Four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Should your Nebraska government be paying
for your childcare? Of course, there's minimums you got to
make below a certain amount, and blah blah blah. But
you do realize that before I even said it, it's
(11:11):
already come true because this started in twenty twenty one
during the pandemic. And what we always say, once you
bring in a government program, you're never going to get
rid of it, and it always ends up costing you
more money. So here we are in twenty twenty six,
and people in the unicamrale would like to keep the
(11:34):
rate the same. In other words, whatever affected you, if
you were able to make it in under the wire
to get this subsidy, they're going to keep it at
that rate, even though there's no pandemic. You follow me,
it's a government thing. It'll never go away, it'll start
costing you more money, and already it's done it. So there,
(11:58):
here's Keith Await minute, here's Brett on news radio eleven Kaby. Hello, Brett.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
How you doing, Chris?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Great, sir, well, I.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Wanted to welcome you back, and I cannot.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Wait until November when you can tell that story when your.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Son to you dear hunting again.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, real quick, No, we raised four kids.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
We paid our own childcare, We had to pay our
own health care.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm tired of subsidies. What happens is is with the
healthcare no different than the or with the childcare, no
different than the healthcare. They got used to give you
that free stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Now they're off spending that money elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But they didn't have to designate to healthcare or to childcare.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
How did we make it?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I understand things cost more now, but people make more now.
I mean obviously, like the emailer said, fifteen dollars an hour,
I mean everything, everything the government puts their hand goes
to Crown.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, you know a lot of yup. I'm sure that
there are good things that they've done, but you know,
you made a very good comparison COVID. Right. Remember we
talked about just for a brief bit yesterday, but the
COVID federal subsidies were supposed to be temporary. Well guess
what now they want to make them permanent. And what happened.
(13:27):
Oh no, the subsidies will be great. No, it's just temporary.
We're not going to need them for so long because
our brilliant government healthcare plan is going to work out
so well and we're all going to be rich and
it's gonna be seventy two degrees in sunny every day.
So then what happens now they want to keep those
subsidies permanent. All right, let's go back to the phones,
(13:49):
Mary and welcome the news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Hey, I want to comments about this childcare. It kind
of reminds me of when they go and started subsidizing universities.
They put more money in, the rates go up for universities,
tuition goes up, and government with more, and then tuition
goes up again and people are end they up spending
a whole lot more than any but with all they
would just because the government gather knows in it. So
(14:14):
I think it'll happen with this also.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh yeah, see, once once they start taking your money
to give to somebody else, they're certainly not going to stop.
I appreciate the call, Mary Anne. Look at that. Mary
Anne gets in Boom makes her point. Boom, she's out.
Way to go, Mary Anne, you did your talk radio caller.
Uh oh, well it would have been funni here she
(14:39):
went to talk radio caller school. All right, four h
two five eleven ten. Let's talk to Joe on the
Chris Bakers Show. Welcome Joe, Thank Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'm just going to say, welcome back, thank you, thank you.
How about this child care? You know, I don't think
it should be from the stage, brought up something about
the pro life people that he should be happy that
they all had their kids. Yeah, several taxes goes, you know,
three hundred and sixty five million dollars a year the
(15:13):
planned parenthood to pay for abortions. Instead of that, I
didn't have no control over. I can't stand that my
money is doing that. Instead of that, I wouldn't have
a problem with him helping out. I don't care on
the fence, not because my taxes are already getting pillaged. Right,
how about to do some kind of good with it
(15:34):
instead of evil like abortions.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Wow? I all right, sir, Well listen, thanks for that perspective.
Look at that. Now there's a guy stepping up to
the table. Look, I want people if they if they
if a woman gets pregnant, I want him to bring
that kid into the world. And if I got to
pay a little extra, Okay, there you go. That's a
(15:57):
giver right there. That's a good guy Chris Biker program.
You know the thing is the more free stuff. Well
they call it free stuff we get from government. What
do we do we get? We get some money from
government to pay for childcare. So now we're thinking, well, hell,
the government's taking care of childcare. I can go buy that.
(16:17):
I can go buy that custom car I've been wanting.
I can use the money the way I want. Maybe
the problem is that people just need to be honest
about their economic situation. Okay, good luck that happening. Maybe
we can find a way to help people understand this. Man,
(16:37):
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Speaker 1 (17:52):
And no, I'm not giving you our web address. Find
it yourself. Butch up. Chris Baker News Radium. We're about
to get in a brawl. It's gonna be awesome, gonna
be awesome. It's a stare down right now, right now,
it's a staredown. But yeah, we'll see, we'll see what happens,
mister hotshot. I just oh, we'll wait, We'll wait all right,
(18:16):
Chris Baker Show News Radio eleventon kfby. Imagine that me
wanting to start a fight with somebody. What are the odds?
All right, So here's what we're talking about early on.
So the unicameral is meeting and they want to continue
the childcare subsidies the levels that were set in twenty
(18:41):
twenty one during the pandemic. Now Senator Kathleen cow who's
pretty cool, said no, this was these eligibility levels were
lowered during COVID. That was actual situation. Now there is
(19:03):
no COVID, so we should go back to the original levels. Well,
the some members of the UA camera the world's greatest
delivered a body ever in the history of all deliberate
to bodies. They don't want to do that. They want
to keep them low, you see, So then voters will
owe them. All right, that's my take, all right, because
(19:26):
in my humble opinion, government doesn't do or does well.
I mean, benevolent action of the government is rare, actual
benevolent action. They like to tell you, oh yeah, we're
here to hope. Now you're here to gum up the works.
(19:47):
So apparently it costs thirteen grand a year for childcare
I don't know. I never put my kids in childcare.
You know what we did at our house. We would
just put the kids in a dog cage and then
go to work and we would just leave a bowl
of water and some food and then the kids. No,
(20:08):
I'm kidding, I made that up. That's not true. We
didn't put them in a dog cage. It was more
like a pen. All right, I'm made that up too.
So anyway, I just want to know why in the
world the state of Nebraska and the Feds have to
pay for childcare for people. Where does this end? Oh?
(20:28):
I know what it ends, with a guaranteed income and
government controlling every aspect of your life. Some of them
would love to do it that way, all right is
see Chris Baker program on news radio eleven to ten
kfab Lots of email coming in on the Chris Baker Show.
Let's see are you kidding me? No? No, no, no, no, no,
(20:52):
no no no. I'll even go one step further, Chris,
I think you ought to have to pull a license
or a perm to even have children. Oh, good lord,
you need to prove your financially stable enough. No, I'm
not gonna go that far out. I need to government.
(21:12):
Get just leave me alone. You know, I'll tell you
something very interesting. You know, I'm a big observer of life.
I study society, That's what I've done. I did it
as a comic and a writer, and a radio talk
host and a ballerina. So I've always been involved, right,
And you know what's really interesting, how average everyday people
(21:36):
get along just fine. Here's an example. Saw video recently
a car crashed and burst into flames. All these people
went running over to that car to try to get
the person in the car out of the car, despite
the fact that things burning and could possibly explode, and
(22:01):
there were white people and black people and men and women.
There was just it was a real diversity makeup of
people that were all there to try to drag somebody
out of a burning car. And they did. And if
you really think about it, we get along just fine
until some jackass with governments start shoving their face in
(22:25):
our business. And then for the person from government to
get what they want done, well, they got to make
some people fight each other and stuff. People get along
just fine. Right. I saw a kid fall in a
swimming pool, couldn't swim. Guy comes in, dives in the pool,
(22:45):
brings him up, gave him mouth to mouth, saved his life. Yay,
guess what, they weren't all the same race, right, I
don't know of anybody, and I'm a white honkey cracker guy,
so I'm gonna beak for the white hockey cracker guys.
I don't know one white honkey cracker guy that would
(23:07):
ignore another person of another race or gender in trouble.
Never seen it, Never seen it at all. I'm why
I've driven by seeing people changing tires for people. People
in general are really good and we're not caught up
(23:27):
in all this. Well, I got to make sure I
have this many of this guy and this many of
that guy, because we've got to make sure. We've got
to measure our diversity. This just doesn't happen. People are
People in general are very very good. So what does
this have to do with government paying for childcare? Well,
(23:50):
because people are generally really good. So a business owner
who realizes, you know what, I would have a much
happy your staff if we made childcare an in house operation, right,
that would be good. Or how about just give them
a tax deduction instead of a subsidy, which is a
(24:14):
big fat check coming from the government every month. Well,
why don't you just let him write it off? How's that? Now?
I think there is part of tax law. I don't know.
I got a guy that does taxes at the Baker
House and it's not me. But isn't there a rite
off for childcare? Isn't there a tax deduction one can
(24:38):
take for childcare? That answer? I don't really know, but
it might be a better idea. I'm sure there's got
to be something. I don't know. We'll look it up
and get you the stuff. So there you go. So
that anyway, that's a I don't know why that people
want us to pay for child once again, another government
(25:02):
program that will never go away? All right, Chris Baker
radio program on news Radio eleven ten k f A.
B Uh, let me just give you another example government.
I mean, I don't want this to, you know, be
the I Hate government show all the time, and I
(25:23):
guess maybe it's turning into that. I don't know. Let's see,
hang on a second, d I'm trying to find god
the okay, all right, got it all right? Here we go. So, uh,
some bureaucrat was on I think Fox or whatever, one
(25:45):
of those shows where the girls have short skirts and
their legs are always crossed. You know, that was a
that was a whatever, I'm not I'm gonna get sidetracked.
So here's here's a guy, a member of the House
of Representatives, I'm pretty sure, and they ask him, well,
what about this idea that you don't pay congressmen and
(26:09):
senators if there is a government shut down? So listen
to this idiot.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
But do you support the idea that members of Congress
are the ones that should not get paid if there's
a government shut down in the future.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Look, we are trying to resolve differences that people have
this notion that somehow Congress is separate from the American people,
and we're holding it up because we just don't know. Look,
there's a lot of passion on this issue. You will
agree with this. I saw the interview that you did
just before this. People who want more enforcement. I got
people in my district who are upset about what ICE
agents are doing and they want protection from that. We're
(26:44):
not fighting over who gets the TV remote.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
No, I'm just saying that if there's going to be
another not answered the question, the TSA agents and those
and the government workers that are making forty five thousand
dollars a year, they go a month without a paycheck,
that it matters to them.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Absolutely, yeah, no, they should get PA. But also it's
kind of written into the constitution that you can't use
the pay of representatives as a leverage point on how
to get policy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I think that can Oh yeah, look at that down.
We don't want to take my payaway. Don't take my payaway. Hot,
They're all such phonies. Peyton Highlock was able to clarify
the Child Dependent Care Credit little tax deduction, a non
refundable credit for expenses paid for care of a child
(27:31):
under thirteen. What if you're mentally under thirteen? Can my
wife get a deduction? I think that would be good.
That's good anyway. Maximum credit is thirty five percent of
three thousand dollars, so that's about one thousand and fifty
for one kid. Wow, that's a big help, all right,
So can we you know, maybe look at that. That
(27:52):
might be a better way to handle this, a better
way to do this, making it big, making a big
tax deduction. I think it would be the greatest thing
ever in the history of greatest things ever. That's what
I'm saying. I'm Chris Baker and I thank you for
your attention to this matter.
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