{"id":2993,"date":"2026-03-29T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:31:33","slug":"ny-socialist-pols-want-free-childcare-for-infants-to-12-yr-olds-with-taxpayers-footing-13b-annual-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"NY socialist pols want free childcare for infants to 12-yr-olds \u2014 with taxpayers footing $13B annual tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic Socialists of America pols are demanding full-day, \u201cfree pre-teen care for all\u201d\u00a0statewide \u2013 with taxpayers footing the $13 billion annual tab, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn state Sen. Jabari Brisport told fellow comrades during an NYC DSA \u201cTax the Rich\u201d powwow last week that the universal childcare system the party wants goes far beyond what Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned for \u2014 serving children from six weeks to 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s scheme calls for free universal childcare for kids six weeks to 5 years old.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brooklyn state Sen. Jabari Brisport told fellow comrades during an NYC DSA \u201cTax the Rich\u201d powwow last week that the universal childcare system the party wants goes far beyond what Mayor Mamdani campaigned for \u2014 serving children from six weeks to 12 years old. <span class=\"credit\">Michael Nagle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brisport estimated the cost of the pie-in-the-sky proposal would range from $8 billion to $13 billion yearly \u2013 double or triple the $4.5 billion Gov. Kathy Hochul has set aside to fund free childcare statewide next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The city already provides free childcare and preschool from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for 3- and 4-year-olds through its 3-K and pre-K programs, but the DSA wants a \u201ctruly universal system\u201d that extends through regular business hours to help working parents, insisted Brisport.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt is a full day,\u201d he said. \u201cIt does not end in the middle of the day when you\u2019re still at work, and . . . at a bare minimum includes $1.2 billion to begin raising pay for the childcare workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brisport did not say where the massive sum would come from.<\/p>\n<p>Critics like Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) said the DSA must be confusing cash-strapped New Yorkers for an ATM  machine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur taxpayers are already burdened enough as it is, and now the DSA wants to basically double the deficit, so they can start their extracurricular indoctrination of the next generation straight from the womb until junior high school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul on March 3 announced the $4.5 billion Hochul has set aside to fund free childcare statewide next fiscal year will include $73 million to support the first 2,000 seats of NYC\u2019s new 2K preschool program for 2-year-olds. <span class=\"credit\">Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is ridiculous. Money doesn\u2019t grow on trees, and New York City\u2019s taxpayers should not have to shoulder this additional cost, so our children can be fed left-wing propaganda alongside their bottles every morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani wants the state to tax millionaires and corporations to fund his universal childcare plan and other lefty pet projects, but Hochul has opposed the idea and, instead, proposed tapping into existing revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Hizzoner has been vague on specifics but said his plan was inspired by Quebec\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian province offers parents low-cost childcare at $9.35 a day for kids from birth through 12 years old, including home-based and after-school care.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brisport estimated the cost of the pie-in-the-sky proposal would range from $8 billion to $13 billion yearly \u2013 double or triple the $4.5 billion Hochul has set aside to fund free childcare statewide next fiscal year. <span class=\"credit\">Michael Nagle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both the moderate Dem governor and socialist Mamdani earlier this month announced the state would put up $73 million to fund NYC\u2019s first 2,000 free preschool seats for 2-year olds beginning this fall. That\u2019s $36,500 per seat \u2013 or 41% above the average yearly cost of private childcare in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The state plans to kick in another $425 million in fall 2027 to fund another 12,000 2-K seats.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Kellogg, state projects director of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, said Brisport\u2019s revelation about the DSA\u2019s true goals for free childcare \u201cshould make it clear New York is a five-alarm catastrophe\u201d with \u201csocialists driving policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a socialist could push to spend $8 billion-plus on top of the billions Gov. Hochul has already proposed for childcare expansion,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that is piled on\u00a0[top of] New York\u2019s highest-in-the-nation, per-pupil spending for first- through sixth-graders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis is duplicative, wasteful, offensive, and unaffordable for taxpayers.\u00a0It is radical socialist ideas like this that are fueling the\u00a0slew of tax hikes proposed in Albany, on everything from crypto and gold to helicopter rides.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor\u2019s Office and the Governor\u2019s Office did not return messages.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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