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Using tax-preferred savings funds to pay not just for college but also tools used by loggers, plumbers, electricians and the like.

We got the kid all the way to high school, my employer valued me and I knew a good plumber.

“We needs a tax code that honors the trades,” she said, allowing write-offs for the kinds of equipment used by loggers, plumbers and electricians.

“Like future plumbers and electricians. They can get an early start with apprenticeship programs.”

Touring the plumbers and steamfitters apprentice program, she talked up the importance of organized labor, extolled the job-creating potential of green energy and mentioned her father was a proud member of the Teamsters.