MACHINES ARE DOING MOST OF THE WORK

Eliminate corporations, overburden businesses with $20 per-hour wages and excessive labor, environmental and safety regulations with high expenses associated with all three, and bring in machines to perform human services.

Over and over I read about how people complain about how former President Trump cut corporate taxes and whine about it. I owned two corporations in Bakersfield during his tenure as president. Trump’s elimination of some of the ridiculous environmental taxation regulations was welcomed by myself and every corporation in the United States, with the outcome being more people were employable due to having more money for employment opportunities.

Now, machines are doing the work at the majority of fast food restaurants in California. Do the owners pay taxes on the revenue these machines take in? Do they have families to raise? Do these machines pay into Social Security? Did these machines eliminate people that need work? If every business employed machines and robots — who might I ask will be paying taxes to keep this country viable? How many more people will be on government subsidies?

I am amazed at the self-righteousness of employees who sit back and scream everyone makes money but them when they have new trucks, new boats, are living in $200,000plus homes, taking four-week vacations, have medical insurance and get to take a paycheck home every day for putting a hamburger patty between two buns. A fact. No corporations, no employers, and machines you don’t work — no USA.

— Raymond Reed, Bakersfield