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| Rachel |
I live in New York, and Occupy Wall Street has been in the air lately: on local news, heard in conversation, talked about in my own home. When my 8 year old son saw a protester's sign that said "We are the 99%", he asked me what that meant. I did my best to explain it to him. His third grade teacher had just explained what "taxes" are, so on the heels of that I tried to incorporate these ideas: We pay taxes so that we can drive on safe roads and bridges, go to good schools, pay teachers so they can support their families, pay firefighters and police officers to keep us safe, support our elderly like Grammy (with a brief tangent on what Social Security and fixed incomes are), provide healthcare to people so they don't get sick.... etc.... etc...
