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Wall ineffective
Re: “North America trade war feared after talk of tax: Trump sees 20 percent levy funding wall; Peña Nieto cancels trips,” front page, Jan. 27:
Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, is right when he said, “Building a wall is the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border.”
If they are serious about curtailing immigration, they should push for laws to punish the owners of factories and corporations who hire people without documents.
But I guess such an idea would hurt the rich.
Meanwhile, it’s open season on the environment, private property rights and the taxpayer.
Don Mathis
Mexico’s not paying
A parallel for Donald Trump: I built a house and my neighbor pays for it. NOT!
Yram F. Martinez, Eagle Pass
Give it up
Why can’t President Donald Trump leave it alone? He lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. He is not the first to do so.
Some people are registered to vote in more than one location (even some in his own Cabinet) because people move about, and there is no law requiring a person to notify his previous election precinct before registering to vote in another. Also, deceased people must be removed from voting rolls, but this takes time as election officials must compare their list of registered voters with the deaths reported by the Social Security Administration and other sources.
All investigations to date have resulted in findings that voter fraud is rare. We will waste time and money to convince our narcissistic president that America’s voting system is the best in the world.
Greg Castillo
Yup, Trump’s right
I can’t help it, but I have to agree with the “Trumpster.” There was illegal voting. My gosh, there had to be! How else could he have won?
I say check every Republican voter’s registration card for duplicate names and street addresses, and I am sure they will find many illegal votes. There is no other way he could have won.
Fred M. Vasquez
Nice going, Frank
Re: “Respond to ‘alternative facts’ intelligently,” Frank Bruni, Other Views, Jan. 27:
Can you run Frank Bruni’s column regularly?
Right on, Mr. Bruni!
Francille Radmann
Misguided women
I am a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. I do not understand these women marching against everything that might give their kids and grandkids a future. I pray for our children and grandchildren coming after us. We pray for a united America.
What do these women think they are doing? They are not supporting their kids and grandkids.
Patricia J. Wood
Rescue mission
My congratulations and heartiest thanks to the men, women and children who filled the streets of our cities in protest, what appears to be the beginning of an era of deep despair for large percentages of the population. While I was not one of them, I was cheering them on in spirit. And now the work for those of us who did not march begins.
We all have the task of supporting these marchers with tweets, texts, emails, phone calls and letters to our elected representatives, assuring them that their responsibility must be to “we, the people” and not to some amorphous mass in Washington known as “the party.”
There is hope, friends and neighbors, but only if we act and act now to rescue this great nation. Stay close, but reach out.
Sarah Joe LeMessurier
So right about tax
Re: “Benefits of a zero corporate tax,” Thomas Nichta, Another View, Jan. 27:
Thomas Nichta, you are SO correct!
Thank you!
John Strickland
Back zero tax 100%
Re: “Benefits of a zero corporate tax,” Thomas Nichta, Other Views, Jan. 27:
Bravo to Thomas Nichta for proposing a zero percent corporate income tax rate! This idea embodies sound economic principles, recognizing that companies don’t have wealth — families do. Companies and government merely hold wealth in trust.
Zero corporate tax rates would onshore many of the corporations now accused of capital flight, and would reduce the validity of corporations as individuals, allowed with a reversal of Citizen’s United.
Of course, direct tax rates on individuals would rise, but families pay taxes indirectly though corporations already, so, on net, no problem.
John DeLaHunt
Executive arrogance
Re: “In Cabinets, where diversity occurs is what matters,” Another View, Jan. 19:
I agree with not surrounding yourself with ideologues, thinking you are the smartest person in the room, lying to the American people and being thin-skinned about criticism. Hope Donald Trump follows this advice.
Too bad the author didn’t have the prescience to advise our outgoing president to avoid these shortcomings. Barack Obama checked all these boxes, some to stratospheric levels. He not only thought he was the smartest person in the room but in the universe — maybe of all time. This arrogance was at the root of many of his failures.
Hoping for a better tomorrow.
John Fedor
Life and death
Several news outlets (Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post) have reported that the Trump administration pulled Affordable Care Act advertisements for the last two weeks of this year’s enrollment period, which has been the most active sign-up time.
Advertisements are reminders. Lack of health insurance is a cause of death. How many child deaths will these federal administration actions cause?
Richard A. Albanese, M.D.
Anti-Trump bias
Thank you for printing one anti-Trump column after another. Your op-ed page is full of critical columns against our president, and your front page is full of negative articles. I am thankful that your liberal rag is on an all-out assault, because it assures me the man I voted for is doing exactly what he said he would do. Keep up the good work.
Jack Hardy
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