Minnesota’s child-care-fraud scandal is a tragic example of what happens when coercive government programs replace voluntary, accountable solutions (“Decade of deceit,” Jan. 2).

Millions were allegedly stolen, and the children the program was meant to help were the ones who were harmed. If we want systems that actually help families, they must be voluntary, competitive and transparent. Minnesota’s scandal shows what happens when they aren’t.

Joseph Sanitate

Las Vegas, Nev.

Whoever, wherever or whatever you are, when you open up a day care for the sole purpose of defrauding the government, closing the business does not insulate you from criminality and incarceration.

Mike Santavicca

Yonkers

Large government programs rarely begin with bad intentions.........

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