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Replace important parts

Levies are like tires. They wear out after a while.

So we replace our tires with new ones. We don’t go too cheap, or they’ll wear out too fast. Nor too expensive; we’ve other things to do with our money. So we get just the right ones for the car to perform as designed.

If we don’t replace our tires, we won’t have a car to drive. And the tire sellers would have to move out of their big houses in the hills and down into the valleys like the rest of us. If we don’t replace the levy, our schools will have to run on four flats.

If you wonder why we old folks should spend our hard-earned money on taxes for another generation: The younger generation might just wonder the same thing as they pay for our Medicare and Social Security!

Jeff O’Connor

Spokane



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