[RogerFGay]

Tataboline Brant's article about Jed Magby's protest over child support was blatantly bigoted. Federal funding for child support enforcement is provided in proportion to the amount of child support paid. Child support formulae have replaced rational law in deciding child support amounts. Due process is dead. The formulae produce arbitrarily high child support awards. No reasonable and informed person could agree that amounts ordered as "child support" today are generally "valid." Every form of protest has been tried and millions of appeals have been filed to no avail. By refusing to acknowledge the corruption in the child support system and the legitimate complaints of fathers in the press, writers like Tataboline Brant cut off access to the remaining established institution for peacefully addressing grievances. Men in Alaska and throughout the rest of the United States feel that they have no choice but to consider other forms of protest. I sincerely believe that most child support enforcement workers know that what they are involved in is wrong, yet they continue to do it. If nothing else, it's their job. State Department of Revenue deputy commissioner Larry Persily knows that maintaining public support requires blaming the victims. I certainly hope that Anchorage Daily News will publish many letters to the editor and counterpoint op-eds to bring some balance to blatantly bigoted coverage of the event.

225 words max, letters to the editor

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Just out of curiosity, does Alaska have the same charming custom of revoking driver licenses for failure to pay child support that other states (like California, for example) have?

Torching one's own car might be a pretty to-the-point way of expressing displeasure with this particular policy...