Letters to the Editor (June 26)
Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas is lost in right-wing blather. In a recent column he wrote: “While some conservatives do not have clean hands when it comes to stoking the partisan fires, it is the left that is mostly responsible for taking us to new depths in political, verbal and behavioral abuse.” Cal must have forgotten the Trump presidential campaign and its rhetoric. Infantile name calling, outright appeals to violence (“knock the hell out of them … I’ll pay your legal expenses) and the veiled threat to Hillary Clinton, “Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know,” Trump said.
Cal says, “Donald Trump is having some successes, though they are taking him longer to achieve because of all the noise about obstruction of justice.” This investigation began with the CIA, it’s important, not just noise. Republicans should be demanding a full investigation to clear these matters up, instead they want to obstruct the obstruction hearings, what motive does that suggest?
Dave Crook, Derby
Regulatory costs
In the national news, the lack of “Wage Growth” is a subject raising concerns for our economy.
That is a state issue as well.
The simple answer to most of our economic issues is to reduce the overly burdensome federal, state, and local regulatory costs that are crippling our economy.
Compliance with federal regulations alone has now reached 12 percent of GDP. Comparatively, military spending is only 3 percent of GDP. Federal regulations in America now total more than the combined Gross Domestic Product of Canada and Australia.
Prior to retiring, the business I was in required compliance with the IRS, EPA, DOL, DOR, OSHA, EEOC, KCC, U.S. DOT/FMSCA, IFTA, UCR, KDHE, City/County zoning and sales tax compliance in each of the over one dozen states we served.
In order to maintain compliance for our small business, it required three of seven full-time employee, a certified public accountant and a lawyer simply to maintain compliance.
If we want to increase productivity and wages for hard-working Americans, we will have to reduce the ever-increasing percentage of money that disappears into “government compliance” instead of being available to pay increased wages.
Kevin Henderson, Halstead
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This story was originally published June 26, 2017 at 5:02 AM with the headline "Letters to the Editor (June 26)."