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Trump’s tax bill
attacks most vulnerable

Re: “Senate Democrats force tax bill’s readout” (Page A1, June 30).

Why are Republican lawmakers pushing in virtual lockstep for such a hugely unpopular budget bill, a bill that will rip health care away from the most vulnerable and put rural hospitals and nursing homes at risk; decimate clean energy; increase funding for the cruel, brutal and obviously out-of-control and over-the-top ICE and “Homeland Security”; continue huge tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy; and pile trillions on our country’s debt?

This budget bill will harm our health, kill clean-energy jobs, cede the clean technology future to our adversaries, dirty our air, accelerate climate chaos — an economic and health disaster in itself — further burden our children with our national debt, and increase interest rates.

This purely Republican bill makes no economic, political or environmental sense. It is morally offensive. And it certainly does not “promote the general welfare,” a stated purpose of our Constitution.

Barbara Fukumoto
Sunnyvale

Pray for a worldwide
embrace of freedom

Last month, at a D-Day memorial event in France, 101-year-old veteran Harold Terens said, “Freedom is everything. I pray for freedom for the whole world.”

President Eisenhower once said that the Founding Fathers “proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine right of the common man.” Two hundred and fifty-nine years ago, proclaiming that all men (and all women) are created equal, and carry with them God-given rights to life and liberty, was indeed a revolutionary idea. Unfortunately, today, not everyone in the world lives freely.

The United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1) states, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Let us hope and pray that someday soon, every man, woman and child in the world will enjoy the same freedoms that we Americans enjoy this Independence Day.

Pete Campbell
San Jose

Courts are failing to
keep killers off streets

In Santa Clara County, half of the vehicular manslaughter cases by drivers were never provided to the DMV. Their notification would have caused DMV to suspend the killers’ driver’s licenses. As a result, these drivers remain on the road with valid driver’s licenses to kill another innocent driver.

What does it take to have the courts do their job and make our roads safer by removing these killers from our streets?

Charles Shoemaker
Sunnyvale

We’re better than our
chaotic administration

Thanks to the felon (among other things) in the Oval Office, we have become incapable of focusing on any one thing for longer than a nanosecond. Current events accompanied by manufactured distractions come at us nonstop.

Stop. Take a breath. Count to 10. Now think about legacy. Ask yourself, “When I die, what will I want to be remembered for?” History will outlive us all, and it won’t be misled by such nonsense as “alternative facts” or ad nauseam denials of reality. Will you be happy to be remembered for furthering the pursuits of a man whose only cause is the glorification and enrichment of himself at the expense of everyone daring to stand in his way?

We were all raised better than that, and it’s past time to start behaving that way.

Eugene Ely
San Jose

L.A. militarization
portends a darker future

Why would Donald Trump send the National Guard and the Marines to control a small and relatively peaceful demonstration in Los Angeles?

Of course, he claims to have done it to “save L.A.” and “they wouldn’t have a city left” if he hadn’t done it, but there is a much darker reason that we need to consider. We know that Trump doesn’t like to give up the office, even when he is soundly defeated. So consider this: Perhaps he is testing the possibility of using military intervention over some fictional disturbance to postpone or even cancel a future election.

Ray Jones
San Jose

Column ignores Mideast
reset toward peace

Re: “Here’s how Trump can end the Israel-Iran war” (Page A7, June 18).

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For decades, conventional wisdom held that no Arab state would normalize relations with Israel until a final and fair resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was achieved. However, the demonstrated success of the Abraham Accords — which established peaceful relations between Israel and four Arab nations (Bahrain, Morocco, the UAE and Sudan) — effectively disproved that assumption.

Given this shift in regional dynamics, it was surprising to see Thomas Friedman argue that resolving the current Israel-Iran conflict should once again be linked to resolving the Palestinian issue — a position seemingly at odds with the lessons of the Abraham Accords.

Brian Suckow
Palo Alto