Personal Bone Spurs simply couldn’t assist himself together with his rants on Memorial Day aimed toward “scum” and “monsters.”
As an alternative of honoring and memorializing the various members of our U.S. army who died and served within the U.S. armed forces, he took the low street. Even at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Virginia, he couldn’t go away it alone.
Donald Trump has no empathy or the slightest clue about being within the army or what a army household is all about. It brings me to tears that this particular person is our chief.
Pat Eland, Delray Seaside
Memorial Day reflections
Planning a barbecue, crusing, exercising or simply resting on Memorial Day is everybody’s selection. However I hope that at any given second we additionally thought of those that have fallen to the palms of warfare — it doesn’t matter what our politics. We should honor all individuals who have chosen to dwell in our free world, the place we appear to take a lot with no consideration. We should be taught to respect all ideas and spiritual values when they’re offered humanely. All of them matter!
We appear to have misplaced this within the translation of our politics, making equality one thing determined by the one main somewhat than by our Structure’s trusted that means, and by altering legal guidelines to work for a specific mindset or ideology. We should always not permit somebody to pit us towards one another, primarily based on loyalty with out a rightful trigger. We can not permit this to occur!
Linda Gefen, Boca Raton
A hollowed-out IRS
We will debate whether or not taxes on the wealthy needs to be raised, however they need to pay what they owe below the present tax code.
The Trump administration intends to scale back the IRS workforce, as greater than 22,000 workers have accepted buyout presents, together with skilled forensic accountants and tax legal professionals. These professionals are able to auditing the rigorously crafted tax returns of the wealthy and if wanted, litigate towards their expert legal professionals and accountants.
One possible results of Trump’s IRS motion is that fewer wealthy taxpayers can be audited and fewer cash they owe can be collected. There is also a temptation to go after the “low-hanging fruit” by auditing lower- and middle-class taxpayers who lack the sources to rent legal professionals and accountants.
It’s one other win for the wealthy and a loss for the remainder of us.
Don Korman, Plantation
Sheer stupidity
I used to joke that the conspiracy-theory nonsense many individuals consider is proof that Russia has parked satellites in synchronous orbits above the U.S. that broadcast “silly waves” on the U.S. inhabitants. There have to be a number of such satellites parked immediately over Tallahassee, as a result of banning fluoride in consuming water is about as silly because it will get — ignoring science and historical past.
In fact, the Legislature and governor insisted that native communities can not opt-out and proceed so as to add fluoride, as a result of they don’t need any comparisons in 5 years (on the standard of dental care).
Fluoride has been proven repeatedly to be protected and efficient for oral well being, and oral well being has been proven in research to have an effect on well being usually. Some cities banned fluoride solely to reverse themselves and add it once more after just a few years, after they noticed the injury. Putin’s funding within the “stupid-wave-satellites” has confirmed definitely worth the cash, and is at present giving him an excellent snicker at our expense.
Frederick Mitchel, Fort Lauderdale
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