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A Kansas Republican is not happy at the idea of a day care assistance credit in the state — and explained it’s bad policy because the state shouldn’t “indoctrinate” children and “put mothers to work.” The progressive news service Heartland Signal obtained the recording of state Sen. Mark Steffen comments, in which he said it’s “not the platform of the Republican Party to emphasize daycare and the separation of children from their parents.” “This could have just as easily been a child tax credit,” he said. “And yet the decision was made to drive a further wedge into our Kansas traditional famil…

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