From LaVern Isely
Monroe
To the editor:
The Republican-controlled Congress used to believe in a balanced budget because they considered themselves conservatives. Since Republican Donald Trump became president at the start of this year, this idea of conservatism was thrown to the wind. The idea of regulations on the big banks and Wall Street were deliberately written off the books. The goal of the Republican-controlled Congress was to let free enterprise conduct business any way that they felt like doing. That's why they got rid of the Dodd-Frank bill which was put in effect shortly after President Obama became president to protect the customers from the big investment banks such as Wells Fargo and Wall Street.
Just exactly what Senator Bernie Sanders was talking about when he almost beat out Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary. As the results of the presidential election went through, Donald Trump won because we don't elect our president in this country on a popular vote, which consists of counting all of the 50 states and adding up the total which Hillary Clinton won by almost three million votes. Republican President Donald Trump won by the Electoral College vote, which both political parties have been using now for years.
I imagine the reason they do is because it's easier for the candidates to campaign. Just let the smaller populated states fend for themselves even though all states, even if they are poorly populated have a right to have two senators. Even if a state is heavily populated, they are still only allowed to have two senators per state, which seems to contradict in the way we run our elections, by having the Electoral College system and not the popular vote.
The tax bill, that President Trump signed and was passed by the Republican-controlled Congress with no support from the Democrats, will mostly benefit the billionaires and millionaires because they lowered the top bracket from 39.6 percent to 37 percent. It seems like the Republican-controlled Congress has forgotten about a balanced budget and according to the economists, we're going to be going into debt big time.
The way it looks now, the Democratic Party will be looking like the conservative party because they believed in liberalism more than the Republicans did, they got totally swamped by Republican President Donald Trump's Christmas present consisting of new tax reform. Most of this benefiting their rich campaign contributors like the Koch Brothers.
Monroe
To the editor:
The Republican-controlled Congress used to believe in a balanced budget because they considered themselves conservatives. Since Republican Donald Trump became president at the start of this year, this idea of conservatism was thrown to the wind. The idea of regulations on the big banks and Wall Street were deliberately written off the books. The goal of the Republican-controlled Congress was to let free enterprise conduct business any way that they felt like doing. That's why they got rid of the Dodd-Frank bill which was put in effect shortly after President Obama became president to protect the customers from the big investment banks such as Wells Fargo and Wall Street.
Just exactly what Senator Bernie Sanders was talking about when he almost beat out Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary. As the results of the presidential election went through, Donald Trump won because we don't elect our president in this country on a popular vote, which consists of counting all of the 50 states and adding up the total which Hillary Clinton won by almost three million votes. Republican President Donald Trump won by the Electoral College vote, which both political parties have been using now for years.
I imagine the reason they do is because it's easier for the candidates to campaign. Just let the smaller populated states fend for themselves even though all states, even if they are poorly populated have a right to have two senators. Even if a state is heavily populated, they are still only allowed to have two senators per state, which seems to contradict in the way we run our elections, by having the Electoral College system and not the popular vote.
The tax bill, that President Trump signed and was passed by the Republican-controlled Congress with no support from the Democrats, will mostly benefit the billionaires and millionaires because they lowered the top bracket from 39.6 percent to 37 percent. It seems like the Republican-controlled Congress has forgotten about a balanced budget and according to the economists, we're going to be going into debt big time.
The way it looks now, the Democratic Party will be looking like the conservative party because they believed in liberalism more than the Republicans did, they got totally swamped by Republican President Donald Trump's Christmas present consisting of new tax reform. Most of this benefiting their rich campaign contributors like the Koch Brothers.
