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...question is not "is Dole too old for the job?" but "Is Clinton too young for the job?" EDWARD F. HALPIN Park Ridge, Illinois...
...Halpin certainly is justified in his complaint that his taxes are high--$7,500 is a lot to pay, even though he knows his high-school age daughter will benefit from that money. And anyone would be angry if he were paying to support salaries $24,000 higher than those in a city just hours away...
...Halpin shares a generation of Americans' lack of understanding: the realization that public education is one of the most important assets in which our country can invest. Good teachers inspire students to learn, and educated students become educated citizens. Educated citizens vote and contribute to a better society. In order to produce that better society, however, we need to go to the root of the problem: put more money in the schools to finance higher teacher salaries...
...obvious question, however, is where to find the extra money to finance $70,000 salaries. It must come from taxes, but are voters like Halpin in New York, who can only control at the local level how much they pay for schools, really going to vote to pay still more taxes...
...only solution, then, is long term: convince people like Mr. Halpin that having good teachers for our nation's children is worth waiting a couple of months on that bathroom plumbing. The probability of succeeding in that persuasion is bleak, however; in state after state, voters have steadily cut back on education al funding, and with the Republican-controlled Congress looking to cut just about everything, further federal aid is unlikely at best...