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“I don’t have kids in school,” she said, “why should I have to pay taxes for schools?”

Someone paid when you were a kid in need of an education, I said.

“But I didn’t live here then,” she said.

Wherever you were in this country, I said, somebody paid for your education.

What goes around, comes around. And if it ever stops, we’re all done.

Think about that in relation to the school levy currently sought by the Grand Coulee Dam School District.

It’s fundamental to our nation that a good school system must be in place to educate our youth, who need a base of knowledge on which to grow and learn … and with which they can make sound decisions when they vote someday. Whenever schools in this country fall down, society pays the price in incalculable ways later, but not much later.

The school district is not raising taxes; the levy is barely higher in total than the one we’ve all been paying for the last four years, and it replaces that one at a lower tax rate.

The money is needed to simply keep up with the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the school system.

It’s the same kind of thing someone paid for when you went through school. Now it’s your turn.

Voters should mail in their ballots with a yes vote on the Grand Coulee Dam School District levy before Feb. 10.

Scott Hunter

editor and publisher