Opinion Line (June 15)

The federal government has put our country $18 trillion in debt. Why are we continuing to do more deficit spending?

President Obama is sending more military to allegedly train the Iraqi army. How much more training do its troops need? Who is training ISIS? They don’t seem to be having any trouble killing everyone in sight.

Thieves and villains use the cover of darkness to conceal their evil deeds, and so do the conservative scoundrels in the Kansas Legislature.

Politics in Kansas: If the courts don’t rule in favor of the Legislature, we cut their funding. If the Legislature doesn’t do its job approving a budget and taxation plan, we pay it overtime.

It’s been said that if a person is put in charge of an institution he despises, he will soon defile it and eventually destroy it. So it is with our governor and Legislature.

The current Kansas government is the biggest joke in the country. Makes the U.S. government look like real professionals.

Why not fine Kansans $2,500 for each vehicle they have registered in different states? And, of course, make them register in Kansas like the rest of us do. This would bring in millions of dollars.

A tax on consumption decreases the goods people can buy. A tax on production decreases the goods a business can produce. Either extreme alone is not good. We need both production and consumption to make the economy run. Return to the tax situation before 2012.

I’m old enough to remember when the liberals started heavily taxing tobacco because they wanted smokers to quit. Now, the liberals are screaming because the Republicans’ tax on tobacco might make smokers quit.

Teachers are understandably worried about non-licensed competition. The public just might realize that a biochemist teaching high school chemistry can be more effective than a licensed education major with a minor in chemistry at best.

When you are in bankruptcy, someone decides what you can buy and how you can spend your money. If you are receiving food stamps, the same should apply. You should not be buying toys and phones and video games with no accountability.

As the mother of a driving teen and the daughter of a driving senior citizen, I’d ask you please watch out for them on the road and forgive them when they make mistakes. They are so vulnerable, and they don’t realize it.

Can somebody tell me what has been broken when we have breaking news on TV?

This story was originally published June 14, 2015 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (June 15)."