Medicaid, Medicare and Paid Family Leave?

In this commentary called, U.S. needs paid family leave . The columnist, Duncan black insist that paid leave for families with newborn children  should be mandatory in the United States, which of course he things that the government should provide this benefit because of how most collectivist think. They think the government should spread the wealth proportionally and provide benefits for all. While this would work in theory where everyone works equal and has a common goal. This will not work in reality. Some people are goal driven and others see themselves as victims.  One argument he uses is that he doesn’t have kids and still would like to see this benefit in the United States. Well, I have no kids either and I have the opposite belief. As a libertarian I believe the government should have a minimal role in an individual’s life. Of course, I believe that there should be a government. I’m not an anarchist. That would never work if we had everyone for him/herself and having no law enforcement, but the government’s very limited role would be to protect against crimes that involve force, fraud and YES to impose income tax, but used in very limited social programs. U.S. paying for family leave not one of them. While the columnist Duncan Black states that is only cost Sweden 0.8% of its GDP. Sweden’s GDP is about 387 billion compared to the U.S.’s  15.29 trillion as stated in the CIA fact book.  This is comparing apples and oranges.

 Only opinion that I agreed with was the one stating that the leave should be split between the male and the female. This coincides with my libertarian viewpoint that the male shouldn’t be thought of as the income maker and the female should be a stay at home mom.