Curt Smith: Giving families more votes would refocus public policy

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    1. Smith has been deeply unserious the last few columns, this one is no different.

      The issue isn’t that parents need more votes. It’s that elderly voters, a cohort that includes Smith himself, have pulled the ladder up behind their kids and grandkids. They’re the ones who caused the problem.

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