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Politicians waste resources because by spending other people’s money, they pay no personal price for their disastrous decisions. Read on.

Total costs of governmental child-care bureaucracies and administration are even higher, because on top of the federal program, the Ontario government this year is providing municipalities within child-care funding — of which $85.5 million is a “one-time transitional grant” to “help offset and assist with the administrative funding changes.” And there’s more: the provincial funding includes $198.7 million for wage enhancements and a home care grant, plus $4.5 million to administer them.

Politicians everywhere say government expansion makes child care more affordable, but it is hard to see how paying for three levels of government bureaucracy and then for providers’ administrative costs to deal with these bureaucracies reduces the final cost of child care to families.

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