Use Estate Tax to Fund Kids’ Early Education: Kathryn Edwards

At a US Senate hearing last week on the looming childcare “cliff,” ranking memberJohn Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, averred that affordable childcare as policy is as likeable asa golden retriever dog, but then lamented it would simply cost too much for the government to help. It was a rather stunning declaration that affordable childcare is a bipartisan issue, followed by the sad admission that the will to fix it is not.

So, here’s an idea: Dedicate the revenue collected from the estate tax into a trust fund that finances early childhood education, spanning childcare to ...