Things the EARN-IT bill (reminder: supposedly designed to protect children) doesn't do:
- Increase funding for child protective services & foster care services
- Increase funding for parents (EBT, social work, etc)
- Increase funding for schools (comprehensive sex ed, etc)
Because our priority is kids! Honestly! Seriously I mean it!
Are you mad that laws against murder (reminder: supposedly designed to protect people) don't include funding for domestic abuse shelters, food pantries, social workers, relocation programs, job retraining, college tuition assistance, and comprehensive sex ed?
This kind of rhetoric is so boring at this point. Trying to destroy a proposal via scope creep is intellectually dishonest and does little more than weaken your own sides position. If I was a senator on the fence about this bill and this was the best argument you could muster against it it would be an easy yea.
Nobody anywhere is challenging the laws again child abuse. What they are challenging is the laws attempting to decrease it or catch people doing it through means that don't actually work and harm other important things.
To use your example, it's like writing a law "against murder" that's written in a way that actually doesn't make murder illegal and also bans seat belts.
In fact, this "scope creep" you mention is exactly how laws work. First you make murder illegal (done), then you start looking at the common causes for murder and find ways to fix those.
Because our priority is kids! Honestly! Seriously I mean it!