Remember how Ivanka Trump is all about family? How she's bringing a "softer" side to her miserable father's administration by championing "paid" family leave? You'll never guess who's doing the paying. Actually, you will. It's easy. You are! Trump is teaming up with noted Senate lightweight Marco Rubio (R-FL) to cook up a plan in which you are forced to steal from your own future in order to pay for you present. The bonus for Lil’ Marco is that it also advances the long-term Republican goal of destroying Social Security.
Rubio has barely started crafting a paid leave bill, much less a broader legislative strategy. But he envisions an idea that has recently gained traction in conservative circles: allowing people to draw Social Security benefits when they want to take time off for a new baby or other family-related matters, and then delay their checks when they hit retirement age. […}
“That’s a new idea for Republicans who still identify it as something that comes out of the left,” Rubio said of paid family leave. “Forcing companies to provide it is perhaps an idea that finds its genesis on the left, but the notion that pregnancy should not be a bankruptcy-eliciting event is one that I think all Americans should be supportive.”
Rubio and Ivanka Trump have recently exchanged emails about paid family leave. And in his Senate office in late January, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also privately pitched the concept to the president’s daughter, who gave it a warm reception, according to one person familiar with the meeting. Lee is a close ally of Rubio, and they jointly lobbied for expanding the child tax credit—an Ivanka-backed effort that prompted Rubio to nearly tank the tax bill in the final days of the overhaul. He ultimately voted for it.
No, blockhead, not all Americans should be supportive because not all Americans are like you and have jobs in which staff take care of most of the stuff and you only have to show up most weeks for three and a half days. Most Americans either physically can't or justifiably don't want to work until they're 70 or 75. This is not what Social Security was created to do. This is not what Social Security should be doing. This is not a choice working families should be forced to make—pain now or pain in the future.
You know what would have paid for a lot of family leave? The $1.5 trillion tax cut Republicans just gave to the super rich and corporations. With all the tax breaks big employers are getting, they could provide family leave.