Letters: If you can go to the grocery store, you can go to the polls
No need for voting by mail
In the Sept. 1 story, “Texas Dems urge appeals court to allow vote by mail for all,” the Democratic Party argues that mail-in ballot requirements discriminate against voters younger than 65. (Sept. 1, 7A)
In Texas, the legal drinking age is 21, the minimum driving age is 15 and the minimum legal voting age is 18. By the Democrats’ mindset, all of those violate the 26th Amendment because they prohibit people from doing something merely based on their age.
If people can go to a grocery, home improvement or department store, they can go to the polls to vote.
- Richard Downey, Euless
About to fall over a cliff?
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, marching for equal rights and electioneering, have we lost sight of the next crisis coming? The new federal fiscal year begins in less than a month, and we’ve added trillions in new debt this year. So how are our politicians doing in crafting a new budget?
The president has requested about $4 trillion. But instead of going through the process, our leaders will use continuing resolutions to keep the government funded until the election is over. Then, after the holidays, maybe they’ll really get down to business.
Why is it so difficult for our politicians to do their jobs? If we did this in our jobs, we’d be fired.
- Art McMahill, Arlington
Fuel on the economic fire
President Donald Trump likes to boast about how well the country was doing financially before the pandemic. But the 2017 tax cut poured gasoline on an already healthy economy and added another projected trillion dollars to our debt in the process.
Adding a stimulus to an already good economy is not good policy. This was a gift primarily to his rich donors and friends that taxpayers will have to pay for. Could this have been done just to influence the election?
- Robert Bunata, Fort Worth
All of Trump’s accomplishments
In 2016, I supported Donald Trump in his bid for president for two main reasons: First, he understood the world’s financial system. Second, he was a successful builder. This means he has the management skills to solve complex issues, and he worked with people in doing so.
Here’s some of what he’s done since he took office: enacting significant tax cuts for most Americans, removing thousands of unnecessary regulations that stifled business, adding thousands of jobs with historic low unemployment rates, destroying ISIS, keeping us out of new wars, enacting criminal justice reforms and managing the pandemic.
Trump is a leader, not a politician. He is the people’s president.
- Paula Scoggin, Benbrook
The struggle goes on still
Dana Milbank’s Thursday column, “This cornered president is trying to foment a race war,” (10A) paints a doomsday scenario for our society. Some commentators are shamelessly fanning flames and stoking fears against the Black Lives Matter movement.
This is a continuum of a century-old struggle for freedom, justice and equality, dating back to the anti-lynching movement and the civil rights movement. Their race-baiting and hate-mongering are the same as it was against our forefathers.
- Eddie Griffin, Fort Worth