My Norwegian grandmother still hates the Swedes for being neutral and allowing the Nazis to march through to Norway.

Yeah, I think we should cut the military budget by at least half, get rid of farm subsidies, and reform the prison system. I just didn’t feel the need to outline my fiscal policy when wondering about maternity leave.

I never called the question illegitimate, it just clearly states the reason why we cannot make progress as a nation.

Four states (California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Washington) plus D.C. have paid parental leave. They all appear to pay for it via the unemployment system—i.e. the employee and employer each pay a small tax out of each paycheck and then people apply for it. It would certainly be unfair for individual companies…

Everyone. Collectively. TAXES. Good lord.

No, what’s truly fucked up is that Hillary Clinton and the “feminists” who support her don’t call her out for the fact that she has no policy to fix any of this and trashes the candidate who says the US should have these policies like all the other industrialized nations.

Why the backlash over asking where the money comes from? I would also like to know - who pays for it in other countries? Is it government? Employers? A combination? The answers above are illuminating, because when the question comes up I always think that employers are the ones who are supposed to provide it - and…

You pay more taxes, you get more services. That’s how the world works. You pay more than three times as much as I do in taxes, and in return, the government gives some of that money back in the form of things like paid parental leave. Personally, as someone who’s not going to have any kids, I prefer paying less money.

I have coworkers who leave work early or don’t come in at all because they have to do something for their kids and they get upset when I give them the same treatment as someone who misses work from a hangover or leaves early to catch a movie. We all have lives. Yours isn’t suddenly more important than the rest of ours…