Invoice would assist mitigatethe prices of Large Oil
Large Oil taxes us thrice. We’re taxed on the pump to wash up soiled gasoline within the refineries, then once more for cleanup after a local weather catastrophe attributable to excessive climate. Local weather disasters have triggered some insurance coverage corporations to expire of cash; mine left the state. Now all of us pay greater insurance coverage charges — it’s like a 3rd tax.
All of us bear the prices of Large Oil, though the lack of a beloved one or house is past price. The actual fact is we’re being triple-taxed. All California legislators have to be courageous and cross the Polluters Pay Local weather Superfund Act (SB 684 and AB 1423), which may also help mitigate a number of the injustices accomplished.
That features these legislators who settle for marketing campaign contributions from the fossil gasoline trade, like my state senator, Tim Grayson. Urge your legislators to vote sure.
Carol WeedWalnut Creek
Newsom’s new plan isfamiliar empty promise
Stephen ShivinskyWalnut Creek
Slash-and-burn policywon’t make U.S. nice
The place is Congress? They’re completely spineless, so afraid of Trump that they do his bidding whether or not they agree or not. Worst of all it’s only the start of this presidency. What’s subsequent? If he needs to “Make America Great Again,” this isn’t the way in which to do it. We should stand as much as this bully.
JoAnne WilfongSan Ramon
Democrats should moveon from outdated management
To the management of the Democratic Celebration:
You don’t seem to even know who your constituency is. It’s not those that supported the Clintons or Obama or Biden. You haven’t moved on. You could.
Take heed to the 18- to 35-year-olds. Take an excellent have a look at a world with an unaffordable financial system and a planet dying from local weather change. They know the longer term can’t be socially engineered so everybody has a university schooling, a home, a automobile, 2.5 youngsters and most significantly, a job to pay for all of it.
Cease speaking in regards to the previous. Nobody cares. Take heed to what the longer term wants and needs, and it’s not fascism. Let me know you’re listening and perhaps I’ll throw you a buck.
Nancy ThorntonConcord
Headline continuesvilification of susceptible
Re: “Cost of undocumented health care in California runs billions over estimates” (Web page B2, March 16).
I discovered the title of this text to be one other demonization of undocumented immigrants and skim no additional. Then I went again and did re-read it. It was an excellent historical past lesson. Sadly, most readers most likely didn’t take the time to transcend the headline.
I nonetheless have an issue with the title. It gives fodder for many who wish to demonize probably the most susceptible — individuals who work in agriculture, building and different industries which are bodily arduous and harmful, however important to our financial system, jobs that most individuals don’t wish to work.
So historical past, however no answer to this outdated downside. I counsel all of us learn Matthew 25: 31-46 after which determine if we’re sheep or goats.
Craig KelsoPleasanton
Reinstate USAID, ourbeacon to the world
The latest dismantling of USAID signifies greater than the tip of a authorities company; it marks the tip of U.S. dedication to world solidarity and democratic ideas. USAID embodied America’s perception that collective motion fosters optimistic change worldwide. Its dissolution displays a shift towards profit-driven motives, sidelining compassion and shared duty.
The narrative that we can’t afford humanitarian support is a falsehood propagated by those that profit from public disinvestment. Whereas funds are available for tax cuts favoring the rich, we’re instructed there’s shortage in relation to aiding the susceptible. Historical past will decide us not solely by our actions however by our complacency. But it’s not too late to behave. Reinstating USAID is greater than restoring an company, it’s reaffirming our nation’s id as a beacon of hope and benevolence.
Leslie ClementsWalnut Creek
