Opinion Line (May 11)

If ignorance is bliss, then Kansas and Texas have to be the most blissful states in the country.

The Republicans seem to be a giant of contradictions. They want new businesses but shut out Uber. They want to help families but propose killing the homestead exemption. They want to encourage alternative fuels but hammer wind farms. They want to help schools but cut their funding.

Do any of you complainers even know an Uber driver? I do. They use their own cars and their personal insurance. All expenses are on the driver. Then there are so many Uber drivers no one makes any money. Uber benefits, but the drivers don’t. Goodbye, Uber, and good riddance.

With an increase in sales tax, people on a fixed income (like me) just won’t be able to buy as many Kansas goods and services. Which won’t be good for the Kansas economy.

When will it become apparent to the governor, and some members of the Legislature, that the only time businesses create jobs is when consumers buy their products?

Keep mega-Dillons out of liquor sales. Stick a cork in it.

The school board is building a high school at 127th Street East and Pawnee. The school board is not building the infrastructure to support it, such as widening Pawnee, 127th and 143rd to support the additional traffic and adding stoplights. Construction should be stopped until infrastructure is provided.

If you think Kellogg and Webb is dangerous now, wait until Costco opens.

The Wichita VA Medical Center is spending $5 million on solar panels for a $200,000 savings per year. That is a 25-year payback. What CFO in the private sector would approve an expenditure with a 25-year payback? None.

People offended by Leonard Pitts Jr.’s wisdom and sweet spirit don’t like being confronted by their racism. Sad, because he’s the best columnist we have at the moment.

Don’t care for Pitts’ column? Do not read it. I don’t.

How can anyone criticize Pulitzer Prize-winning Leonard Pitts’ tell-it-like-it-is columns as being “poison-spewing” while ignoring the right-wing self-righteous columns of Cal Thomas? Just looking at the condescending sneer on his face ruins my day.

If columnist Cal Thomas believes that “boundaries … have guided humanity for generations,” does he then believe segregation was a good thing?

This story was originally published May 10, 2015 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (May 11)."