To this day, I feel bad that when I was a kid, I destroyed many ant hills. Jeffrey Tennant, Long Grove Awe over those who rebuild When one makes a deal, one ought to honor it. Without it, our continent might have been split into many different countries, which is what happened in Central and South America. The second is that the college was part of a deal to encourage smaller states to join the union. If the president were elected by popular vote, he might have won. When George Wallace ran for president as a segregationist in 1968, it was clear from the beginning that, no matter how strong his appeal was in the South, he had no chance of winning a Northern state. The first is that it stops a candidate with only regional appeal from winning a national election. There are two good reasons for keeping the Electoral College. Larry Craig, Wilmette Reasons for Electoral College We should also allow parents who send their kids to private schools a deduction on their taxes for their expenses up to the amount they would have paid for public schools. This plan would reduce overall property taxes and equitably fund all our public schools. Local school districts would be allowed to raise additional taxes. This should be kept separate from the general income tax in every way. Let the state determine a per-student allocation for public education. I have proposed a solution to this for decades. People shouldn’t have to move because of high property taxes. People retire or lose jobs and then live on fixed incomes or their savings, but property taxes just keep going up.

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