Letters to the Editor for Feb. 4
The letter writer’s take on taxes left out half the story and gave the impression taxes are a bad thing. Taxes don’t “punish” as the letter writer stated, they pay for goods that benefit everyone, including him. Public goods that none of us want to live without, such as police and fire protection, roads and schools. In this week’s Economist, there was an article on how Latin American mayors are transforming former slums into prosperous suburbs through the effective use of taxes.
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the concern of those countries with nuclear weapons has been to not cause an accidental use of nuclear weapons. Since 1963, the United States, and now Russia, have continued to use the “hotline,” now an email, to reassure each other of the intentions of the politics in each country. According to Wikipedia, since 2007 Beijing has had such a “hotline” with both the United States and Russia.
Two of the three persons executed in Arizona had serious mental problems. I can only hope that Arizona will see the light and do away with the death penalty.School vouchersAs I read about the conflicting views on school vouchers I think back to my education in Michigan in the 50’s and 60’s. I went to Catholic schools for 13 years that were subsidized by the individual parishes from donations. Our town had six Catholic, one Lutheran and one school for the deaf high schools.
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