And youâre getting price gouged to do so. Tip #2: Use your HSA or FSA to pay tax free. You can annually contribute pre-tax funds to an HSA or FSA and then use those funds to pay for your glasses. If youâre in the 33% tax bracket, youâve just saved yourself 33% on your eyeglasses.
The Seventeenth Amendment in the National Archives. The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, Â§3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.
Seventeenth Amendment. The Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.he Seventeenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1913, provided for the direct election of U.S. senators by citizens. Until 1913 state legislatures had elected U.S. senators. Ratification of the amendment followed decades of insistence that the power to elect senators should be placed in the hands of ordinary voters.