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Opinion | How JD Vance plans to punish childless Americans

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Sen. JD Vance , R- Ohio , has proposed sweeping policy changes to the political and economic status of parents and nonparents.

Frida Ghitis: Helping parents with the difficult work of raising children is a bipartisan goal, even if Democrats and Republicans disagree on how best to do it.

She says Vance presents more tax breaks for parents not as a way to help people who need it, but a moral judgment in favor of the very act of becoming a parent, and a punishment for those who can’t have children, she says.

Ghitis says the idea is not just an affront to democracy, it’s a remarkably selfish conception of what democracy actually entails.

We all understand intuitively that we do this because we value each other and the future, whether we have children or not.

Dolly Parton has given away over 200 million books to kids, you don't say, “What’s wrong with her? She doesn’t have any children, why should she care about anybody else”.