Suppose you're a successful merchant or professional in the city, sending your children to a pricey private school. It's still in your interest to maximize your potential base of customers or clients. It still benefits your environment if more people can afford to live there, eat there, shop there. In the earliest days of this country, only landowners had the vote because only they were seen as having a stake in the outcome. Today we know better.
Every citizen has a stake in our public institutions.
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