It is a hell of a screed. But there are policy proposals within, but it is like finding a needle in a haystack of nothing but platitudes. For example,
Some are obvious and long-standing goals like eliminating marriage penalties in federal welfare programs and the tax code and installing work requirements for food stamps. But we must go further. It’s time for policymakers to elevate family authority, formation, and cohesion as their top priority and even use government power, including through the tax code, to restore the American family
Democrats should seize on such quotes. Eliminating marriage penalties in federal welfare programs--just exactly what does that mean? Well, Sally is a single mother, she has two kids from a former boyfriend, she collects food stamps, Medicaid covered her pregnancy and the children until they are five. She works, waits tables at the local diner. And she lives with Richard. He is a stand-up dude. Busts his ass at the regional Amazon hub, unloading trucks and sorting, on the night shift. He would like to marry Sally. They are both born again Evangelical Christians. But what happens if they do get married.
Sally loses the food stamps. The kids lose Medicare, and if they want to have children after getting married, well Richard is going to have to cover Sally and the kids through his group health insurance. I mean talk about a marriage penalty, the loss in benefits amounts to thousands of dollars. You can crow till the cows come home about personal responsibility and marriage and the family till the cows come home. Until you change the very structure of