Letters on replacing lawmakers, Hillary Clinton, box scores, jazz concerts
Replace lawmakers who voted for tax cuts
I was incredulous when I read “Drop in ranking due to spending, not tax cuts” (April 21 Opinion). It was written by executives with the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Kansas Policy Institute, which are widely known to represent corporate interests. These writers use Arthur Laffer’s 1979 economic theory to justify Gov. Sam Brownback’s 2012 tax cuts. This theory maintains that raising taxes will actually cause tax revenues to sink, and lowering taxes will produce more revenue.
Just the opposite has happened: Eliminating taxes on pass-through business income has caused tax revenues to sink. Kansas is now the laughingstock of the nation for its failed experiment in tax cuts on the wealthy.
When we go to the polls in November, we all need to remember to vote to replace legislators who voted for these disastrous tax cuts. Checking the voting record of state senators and representatives is easy: Go to kansasvotes.org. We can turn this failed policy around for the future.
Carol M. Webb, Wichita
Truth about Clinton
Almost every day The Eagle has reader comments criticizing Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments and accusing her of lying and corruption. I’m a Republican, and my wife has a Bernie Sanders sign in the front yard, so I’m an unlikely person to defend her. However, Republicans need to do their part to restore honesty to politics.
Most of the controversies surrounding Clinton have been conjured up by her Republican opponents and are now being echoed by the liberal left.
Clinton spent eight years as first lady, eight years as a New York senator and four years as secretary of state. She has helped raise more than $2 billion for the Clinton Foundation, 89 percent of which goes to increasing opportunity for girls, reducing preventable diseases, providing disaster relief and helping communities around the globe. That’s not a bad resume.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact gave Clinton the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates. Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, has investigated every manufactured Clinton scandal since Whitewater and found them baseless. Abramson penned a commentary for the Guardian in which she concluded that “Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest and trustworthy.”
If you don’t like Clinton, don’t vote for her, but please stop spreading the misinformation.
JC Moore, Kechi
Need other box scores
The headline said that columnist Charles Krauthammer can’t explain his love of baseball, but he actually explained it in pretty rich detail (April 23 Opinion). The first piece of evidence Krauthammer offered to explain his love was the box scores, noting that “it’s not until I’ve fully savored the baseball box scores that I resignedly turn to politics.”
Krauthammer gets his Major League Baseball box scores fix each morning in the sports section of the Washington Post. I used to get mine in The Eagle. Since the start of the new season, the only MLB box scores being reported by The Eagle are for Kansas City Royals games.
The Royals are definitely my team, but I need the rest of the boxes for my daily studies of the league, especially division opponents, favorite players, rookie phenoms, aging veterans, former Wichita State University players, etc.
One MLB box score is like a Rand McNally road atlas that only includes Kansas, or a dictionary with only words that begin with the letter “A”: It doesn’t tell the whole story of a game that I, Krauthammer and many others love.
Darren Moore, Wichita
Jazz in June
The Bradley Fair summer jazz concert series will begin June 2 and continue at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through June 30. These free concerts present an outstanding lineup of smooth and contemporary jazz artists each year. This 17-year tradition will find several thousand jazz enthusiasts gathering to enjoy great music.
Steve Bauer, Wichita
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This story was originally published April 29, 2016 at 7:06 PM with the headline "Letters on replacing lawmakers, Hillary Clinton, box scores, jazz concerts."