From LaVern Isely
Monroe
To the editor:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote a great book titled "A Fighting Chance" where she emphasized we must establish a fair banking system and the work she did to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is essential because of the growing gap between the rich and poor. While this is a positive move on the side of the Democrats, the Republicans, holding their state convention in Milwaukee, did give up their foolish idea of seceding from the Union. This is the very thing that Republican President Abraham Lincoln fought to preserve.
Hopefully, when the Democrats have their convention, they would zero in on all those Republicans that want to secede. Thank heavens, a few Republicans don't and tell them, this fall we're going to run on issues and the biggest issue I can think of is we're going to have to raise the state income tax to help pay for all those roads in the state that are going to hell. Maybe you've noticed the potholes all over and getting worse.
It's going to take money to solve the problem. The fairest tax, federal and state, is the income tax. The problem is that neither party wants to challenge the other on how to solve the problem. Gov. Walker said he would just as soon get rid of the state income tax and the Democrats are not really challenging him that if he did, which would be a dumb idea, then how would you pay for all the growing problems we have now and in the future in roads, health care, education, state bank oversight, to make sure our state banks are the best in the U.S. so we don't have to lose out on the big Wall Street banks that we're bailing out?
Elections are the backbone of our nation and you should make the issue of voting easier and while our system is fairly successful now, there is a problem that the Democrats should challenge the Republicans on the voting rights, which is making the system more expensive and less accessible for a person to vote.
While I like paying state and federal income tax, I dislike paying property tax because it's an unfair tax. Political parties must grow up and not talk about seceding, which is the craziest thing I ever heard of. ALEC and their secret-run organization will not save the Republican Party.
Monroe
To the editor:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote a great book titled "A Fighting Chance" where she emphasized we must establish a fair banking system and the work she did to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is essential because of the growing gap between the rich and poor. While this is a positive move on the side of the Democrats, the Republicans, holding their state convention in Milwaukee, did give up their foolish idea of seceding from the Union. This is the very thing that Republican President Abraham Lincoln fought to preserve.
Hopefully, when the Democrats have their convention, they would zero in on all those Republicans that want to secede. Thank heavens, a few Republicans don't and tell them, this fall we're going to run on issues and the biggest issue I can think of is we're going to have to raise the state income tax to help pay for all those roads in the state that are going to hell. Maybe you've noticed the potholes all over and getting worse.
It's going to take money to solve the problem. The fairest tax, federal and state, is the income tax. The problem is that neither party wants to challenge the other on how to solve the problem. Gov. Walker said he would just as soon get rid of the state income tax and the Democrats are not really challenging him that if he did, which would be a dumb idea, then how would you pay for all the growing problems we have now and in the future in roads, health care, education, state bank oversight, to make sure our state banks are the best in the U.S. so we don't have to lose out on the big Wall Street banks that we're bailing out?
Elections are the backbone of our nation and you should make the issue of voting easier and while our system is fairly successful now, there is a problem that the Democrats should challenge the Republicans on the voting rights, which is making the system more expensive and less accessible for a person to vote.
While I like paying state and federal income tax, I dislike paying property tax because it's an unfair tax. Political parties must grow up and not talk about seceding, which is the craziest thing I ever heard of. ALEC and their secret-run organization will not save the Republican Party.
