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Letter: Put your money where your mouth is

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Students raise their hands in full classroom of 32 students in a Spanish class at South Jordan Middle School Monday Feb. 1. Lawmakers will consider a proposal to raise taxes to fund schools, which could pay for technology, teacher salaries and relieve pressure on over crowding.

If the good people of Utah, including teachers, are so concerned about school funding, please contact your Utah state legislator and tell them that you are more than happy to give up some of your tax deductions for your children.

How about getting a deduction for only two children? Just think of the extra money that would flow to the schools.

Parents, put your money where your mouth is. You want school funding to come from everywhere but yourselves.

It is time for the people flooding the schools with kids to pay up and stop relying on everyone else. All that has to be done is make people pay more for their kids.

Barbara Jay, Cottonwood Heights

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