Trump assault on Social Security would harm Americans
In his attempt to institute tax reform, President Donald Trump is floating the idea of eliminating the Social Security payroll tax to put moremoney into the pockets of “ordinary” Americans. Could this “president” be more tone deaf and ignorant? Has he even considered the results if Americans stop funding their Social Security retirement plans?
In his quest to destroy Obama’s Affordable Care Act and to bend upcoming budget negotiations to his will and that of the Republican Party, Trump plans to use the threat of withholding that program’s federal subsidies as a club to achieve his ends. The ACA can be destroyed without the touted “repeal and replace” legislation. Trump and his congressional cronies need only to take away subsidies that allow the un- rich among us to have affordable health insurance.
I sometimes think our nation has been overrun by a group of aliens who have no understanding of the basic purpose of our nation. These conquerors seem to think that the chief goal of our society is to make the rich richer and to leave the rest of us to die in poverty. That this “president” wasn’t even elected by majority vote makes our plight even worse.
Let’s hope that the rowdy town halls and other groundswell activism will cause Trump and his cronies to “come to Jesus.” However, this new regime only uses religion when it benefits them. Karen Wagner, Rolling Meadows
None of your business
I remember what it was like in those pre Roe vs. Wade days. Fellow coeds would mysteriously disappear for a long weekend. It was always to New York.
None of them wore a sign saying, “I’m-pro- abortion.” No one, really, is pro- abortion. At least no one I’ve ever known has purposely gone out of her way to get pregnant just so she could have an abortion.
But the battle which Trump, et al., is in the process of reopening has always been too binary, too simplistic inmy opinion. You were either team pro- choice or pro- life. Not me.
I preferred a third option: “Team None of Your Business.” Nope— no president, governor, used car salesman, lawyer, evangelist, anyone has anymore say aboutmy reproductive choices than choices I make aboutmy teeth, toes, brain, colon, elbow or any other body part. Anything related tomy body ismy business. Period.
Just to be clear, I have never had an abortion. I’mnot even sure that faced with the decision, I could have an abortion.
What I amsure of is that it’s none of your business. Kay Catlin, St. Charles
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