Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Parties not honestly addressing issues

Republicans say they worry about the deficit, yet offer no specific plans to raise taxes and/or cut spending. Democrats spend billions we don’t have to supposedly stimulate the economy, but the money is largely directed away from the private sector and toward more government.

What is required to get back on the right track is now so onerous that neither party will honestly address the issues. The two wars and our foreign policy spending need to be reviewed. If we decide the spending is necessary, then taxes should be raised to pay for it. If not, the expenditures should be severely cut.

The fact that salaries and benefits of government workers have risen a good deal above what exists in the private sector is unfair, wrong and dangerous. These salaries and benefits should be cut to equal private-sector compensation.

Illegal immigration requires that we impose tough economic sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants, set up a system so people can come here to work temporarily and be tracked, and provide a way for noncriminal illegal immigrants already here to become legal or return to their home countries. If all that were done, border agents could work to block illegal drug traffic as their primary duty.

Social Security should be means-tested, and we should gradually raise the retirement age.

Both parties are afraid to even address these issues and many others because of the blowback they would receive from various quarters of the population. For both parties, it is all about obtaining and retaining power. People who blindly support these parties are damaging our country. We must demand more. If we don’t, we deserve what we get.

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