Here's where I'm confused: Michelle Bachmann has described the proposal as the government going out and buying breast pumps. Sarah Palin has said that Michelle Obama is telling mothers, "You’d better breast-feed your baby." Neither of these depictions is anywhere close to accurate, but that's not what puzzles me. The proposal amounts to a tax deduction for nursing supplies. Those who claim this deduction will decrease their taxable income. They will pay less in taxes. I would think Bachmann and Palin would cheer efforts to reduce the taxes of breastfeeding Americans.
If I wanted to join in the silly hubbub, I could ask why Bachmann and Palin are against lowering the taxes of nursing mothers, but that would be darn right inappropriate of me.