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Letter: Senators, congressmen please heed the call: Hands off my 401k
Congress, it has been reported that you want to massively reduce the amount the American middle class can contribute to 401k programs tax-free. Tax-free contributions to 401k programs are an incentive to save for the future, and for many of us, the only hope we have for retirement. You have no business taking that away from us so you can pay for tax breaks that primarily benefit the richest Americans. Putting money away pre-tax allows significantly more money to compound and grow.
Dana Milbank: Trump was on the ballot in Virginia. He lost.
Washington • President Trump may have been 7,000 miles away in Seoul on Tuesday, but make no mistake: He was on the ballot in Virginia when his imitator, Republican Ed Gillespie, lost the closely watched gubernatorial race to Democrat Ralph Northam. This was, in part, because Trump himself embraced Gillespie, endorsing him and, as Election Day arrived, tweeting about the “terrible” Virginia economy, its “high crime” and its gangs, and urging support for Gillespie.
Letter: How about a climate denier tax?
I own an electric car. I charge it with solar panels. I am OK with the idea of a “miles-driven” tax to support our roads and highway infrastructure, given that it is fair and graduated according to vehicle weight. And as long as there is a significant, additional carbon-use fee for vehicles continuing to burn fossil fuel. And if we can find an equitable way for out-of-state vehicles to pay their share.
Letter: Calling on Gill to resign not GOP chairman's prerogative
I see from the news that the Salt Lake County GOP chairman wants Democrat DA Sim Gill to resign because he does not think that Gill did a good job on his investigation of County Recorder Gary Ott. I grew up as a Republican — because my dad said we were Republicans — until I got an education and decided I could think for myself to differentiate political bull$#it.
Letter: Let's embrace cost-competitive clean energy technology
Gary Sandquist’s Oct. 22 commentary on the state of the nation’s electric grid got one thing right. The reliability and resilience of our electricity system are critical to our country’s economic prosperity and growth. But he misses the punchline by suggesting that a healthy electricity grid requires American consumers to bail out outdated, uneconomic power plants.
Letter: Who was the bigger coward - Bergdahl or Trump?
As a military career veteran, I have no love for deserters. I do have a problem when a man who dodged the draft six times states that Bowe Bergdahl is a coward who should be shot. It seems to me that Bergdahl failed his country once and Trump failed his country six times. Who was the bigger coward?
Letter: Visualizing Gov. Chaffetz
So a vast majority of Utahns think Jason Chaffetz would make a good governor . I guess the classic question — “Who ya gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” — has been answered.
Letter: We are still failing in how we react to people different from us
The Oct. 20 letter to the editor from David Warden titled “An invalid question” invites a reply. It portrays both confusion and historical ignorance. First, the question in Ann Cannon’s column, “How can I find a way to forgive a Mormon bishop ...,” is neither an “impossible premise” nor a “misstatement,” as he states. It is simply one person’s question. The call for The Tribune to issue a correction boggles the mind.
Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad, 65 years and still holding up, holding on and holding hands
My sister and I made them move there several years ago, when the Old Man started getting lost in their Holladay home. It was time to surrender not only the house, but also his driver license. Mom teaches a ceramics class at Sagewood. Completely at loose ends, my father sits at the door and watches her. He’s one part servant, two parts guard and seven parts “What the hell else am I going to do?” Mom asked me to speak to the education group there. I agreed to do it because, well, she’s my mother.
Letter: Mind the population - curb the growth
I often complain about the increased population in our valley, so I was pleased a couple of weeks ago when I glanced at an headline that said something like, “... concerned about the population growth ...” But when I unfolded the paper I was disappointed to read that the concern was about sage grouse population, not human population of our valley.
A Place To Sleep: Helping kids be rested and ready to learn | Community Challenge
Picture your children after a sleepover or campout … grumpy, whiny and tired the next day. Now imagine sleeping like this every night and it's the norm. Think about going to school five days a week, being expected to perform well, and held to the same standards as the kids who slept deeply for 8-9 hours. Not being able to get a restful night’s sleep is a barrier to a child’s learning and growth, and A Place to Sleep is a non-profit that helps remove that barrier.
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