To this day it still amazes me how easily people can be mislead by politicians. In his letter to the Collegian yesterday, Michael Minnich touted the superiority of the Gore education plan. As a key point, he mentions that Gore wants to "give a $10,000 tax break to families who have children attending college." It sounds wonderful. I'm sure my parents would love to get $10,000 off of their taxes. The problem with this is that there is already a $10,000 tax break that is given to parents.

Right now, your parents (if they are paying for your college) can file for this tax break and take $2,000 off of their tax bill. Gore's wonderful $10,000 tax break would only increase the amount you could receive back by $800. That's a far cry from $10,000.

Minnich also managed to squeeze in the Gore campaign cry about the wealthiest 1 percent receiving a huge tax cut. But this statement, too, is misleading. About 50 percent of all of the tax money our government collects comes from the wealthiest 1 percent. Now does that seem fair to you? I am in no way wealthy, but if I had worked hard and gotten rich I'd be mad that now I was being punished for earning too much money.

Yeah, it's not fair that we aren't all rich but should we punish those who made it big? If you want to vote for someone who misleads you, then vote for Al Gore. If you want something better, then vote for George W. Bush.