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Everyone knows education is important. Everyone knows Utah lags in funding our schools from a per-student perspective. Everyone knows Utah is philosophically and politically run by a group that celebrates and encourages large families. Instead of asking a childless person like myself to pay more taxes to fund education, how about asking the folks who are flooding our schools with students?
Two or three kids could be "on the state's dime," with a parent surcharge on kids past that number. What could be more fair? How could someone possibly argue against this? Unfortunately, I know this is a pipe dream.
Our Utah "representatives" will never ask themselves and their friends to pay their fair share for their kids' public education when it's much easier to act as is they're trying so hard to find a (different) solution.
Rob Greene
Salt Lake City