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The national average cost of childcare is approximately $15,000 per year. In New York City, that number can shoot as high as $26,000. However, when Socialists run things, stuff gets really expensive. This is what makes it a scandal that a new daycare center for New York City municipal workers will cost nearly $60,000 per kid — more than double the private cost.

According to the New York Post:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of a new daycare center for municipal workers Monday that will cost more than double the average price of child care — to a tune of nearly $60,000 per kid.

The pilot program will start this fall on the first floor of David N. Dinkins Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan after a multi-million-dollar renovation of a room for just 40 children, ages six weeks to 3 years old.

The childcare center co-ops an initiative of Mamdani’s predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams, that was announced in October.

While the city claims this is just the startup cost, and the price will decrease to $47,000 per kid, the math still does not add up.

Why is it that when the left steps in to operate things, all on the taxpayers' dime, it costs exponentially more than the private sector? The only program this will be popular for is the 40 municipal workers who will profit off it, while many New Yorkers must bear the cost themselves. Is that the leftist compassion we keep hearing about?

Isn't it weird that when Socialists start running things, government workers seem to be the only ones who profit? Weird how that always works out.

Wouldn't it be much cheaper to give these municipal workers vouchers and cover the cost of childcare in the private sector? Wouldn't that make much more sense? For a city that seems to be in a budget shortfall, they do an awful job of balancing the funds.

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