One of the most important reasons to adopt pets this holiday season is to ensure Texans are not supporting and inadvertently endorsing commercial breeders or...
Readers encourage pet lovers to adopt, not shop; comment on the debate about leaf blowers; share that marriage is sacred; don’t support school vouchers; and believe schools should ban student cellphones.ByOne of the most important reasons to adopt pets this holiday season is to ensure Texans are not supporting and inadvertently endorsing commercial breeders or puppy mills. These breeders can place profits over the health and well-being of animals.
Often reasons given for opposing a position that one disagrees with is the concept of freedom and individual rights. While these are the very foundations of our democracy, they don’t override the rights of the collective and common sense. This disagreement, unlike many others, is wholly unrelated to the topic. It is a condemnation of what some would believe are certain unalienable rights rather than a preference for gas blowers based on merit.
Ashby argues for allowing school vouchers by funding the program through taking money from a “bad public school … since the departing student is no longer an expense to them.” Ashby further surmises that there are, as he puts it, tax breaks to the wealthy for solar panels and electric vehicles. Well, I can afford these especially since they will save me money eventually. However, I could not have been able to afford a private school, voucher or not. By the way, I still pay school taxes even though my adult child has long since graduated.
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