Kira Newman
Kira Newman
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Although undocumented immigrants do not file tax returns, the vast majority pay taxes through employers’ deductions for Social Security, state taxes and sales tax — and besides, all people deserve the most basic rights of safety and security.
Often, banned books broach critical topics
Few modern stories of censorship that we hear take place in the present place and time. We are told that censorship was a bad thing when the Nazis burned books; we hear science fiction horror stories of a future where reading is outlawed.