Reduce debt by taxing rich and corporations | Letters to the editor

The national debt is caused more by collecting too little money than by spending too much money.

Let’s tax the affluent instead of reducing expenses for federal programs that help the poor. Let’s eliminate corporate tax cuts approved by Donald Trump’s administration. Some wealthy people and corporations pay little or no tax.

Let’s have a minimum tax rate of 15% or more for everyone else and every corporation that earns more than $50,000 annually. The affluent complain about the poor gaming the system. I believe the affluent game the system much more.

Carl Schneider, Delray Beach

Moms for Liberty’s agenda

Moms for Liberty is not a grass roots organization, as it would have you believe, but one closely tied to and supported by the Republican Party. They claim to advocate for parental rights, but they do not advocate for all parents. They advocate only for conservative Republicans like DeSantis. That alone should be enough to tell anyone that this is about politics and DeSantis — not the welfare of all children.

These women should be ashamed of themselves for negating anyone who doesn’t fit into their small, narrow world.

I wonder why same-sex parents with school-age children, and parents of gay children, and every other group marginalized by these small-minded women haven’t joined forces to sue Moms for Liberty for denying their children equal rights to be comfortable with their own families and in their own skins, and to be able to read about others like themselves in their school libraries.

Carren Strock, Delray Beach

Small-minded senator

It was very disheartening to read that our senior U.S. senator, Marco Rubio, called the jury verdict finding former President Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation “a joke.” This is insulting to jurors who rendered the verdict. It undermines the rule of law.

In his treatise, Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “The practical intelligence and political good sense of the Americans are mainly attributable to the long use which they have made of the jury in civil causes.” Apparently the senator does not share this opinion.

As an experienced criminal defense attorney with more than 150 jury trials under my belt, I did not always agree with a jury’s verdict. However, I always respected the jury’s decision. In the run-up to the 2016 election, former President Trump dubbed Senator Rubio “Little Marco.” Unfortunately, it appears Trump may have had a point.

By denigrating the jury’s verdict, Rubio has shown himself to be a very small man.

Daryl E. Wilcox, Plantation

Fix it, Fort Lauderdale

It has been nearly a year since Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis and Commissioner Steven Glassman publicly and verbally attacked and belittled then-Commissioner Heather Moraitis when she went public about Miami Beckham United not making good on its commitment to build a city park next to DRV PNK Stadium.

Fast forward to today. What do we have?

Zero progress on the park and the same two officials calling City Commissioner John Herbst’s ideas for pressuring the Beckham group “childish.”

That’s not the worst of it.

It has been three years since the old Lockhart Stadium was demolished and now we find there was no contractual agreement stipulating who gets stuck with the $6 million bill for demolition of Lockhart. Even worse, Beckham is delinquent in paying the city $1.4 million in permit fees. Apparently the city has mismanaged this project to the tune of $7.4 million. The mayor and Glassman are the only elected officials who have been in office throughout this entire mess.

The buck stops with them. Fort Lauderdale voters are losing confidence that the city can successfully manage these public-private partnerships. It’s time to stop the petty bickering and fix the problems.

Greg Everett, Fort Lauderdale