Re: “Just ignore Trump,” Your Turn, Jan. 13:
In a recent letter to the editor, the author claimed to be a Republican but was leaning against voting for Donald Trump. That said, he wrote he was more inclined to vote for Trump the more Trump appeared in the press.
That logic concerned me somewhat, considering why Trump is consistently in the press.
If we accept the author’s train of thought, U.S. Rep. George Santos is a future president of the United States. He is omnipresent in the press every day. Santos is the up-and-coming liar of the Republican Party.
Jake Hansen
Full, fair paycheck
Multiple Republicans were making the rounds on morning talk shows, including Reps. Chip Roy and Dan Crenshaw, talking about reining in federal spending and cutting the deficit.
Roy talked about American families having to live within their means when preparing a household budget. Yet no family would set a budget without first making sure they were collecting their full paycheck. Nobody would accept getting half a paycheck owed as the reason they needed to tighten their belt. These same Republicans have voted time after time to cut funding for the IRS, the agency that assures that wages owed the U.S. Treasury are actually paid.
The IRS doesn’t set tax policy; it collects what is rightly owed.
While Republicans fight the 87,000 new IRS…
