Readers Write: Election pits policy vs. personality

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Republicans, Democrats and Independents: the Democratic 110-page Biden/Sanders policy manifesto can be read by all

at www.npr.org.under the title “Joe Biden’s 110 page policy.”  Due to the magnitude of information, it would be impossible to relate it fully via this venue.  Because of that, I have selected important issues to bring to the forefront.  It would be wise to research this for yourselves.   Saving America is on the line and rejecting socialism as our new way of life hangs in the balance.

Taxes:  All of Trump’s tax laws will be reversed. Corporate tax will rise from 21 to 28 percent (you will pay higher prices), there will be a 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax for wages greater than $400k, including raising individual income, capital gains and payroll taxes. This includes a wealth tax on all of your possessions.

Law and order: End Cash bail (how is that working in NYC?), abolish capital punishment, redirect police funding, eliminate private prisons and detention centers, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences, end electric monitoring, no jail re-entry for technical and parole violations, ensure that prisoners being released are guaranteed housing and increase funding for it.

End laws that inform employers if a person is a released felon with a record. No more qualified immunity, endangering police.

Education: Bans for profit charter schools from federal funding, opposes private school vouchers. Ends “school to prison pipeline” (in other words, disciplinary problems and dangerous students will stay in school to ruin the education of all of the serious students and continue to endanger them), “free public college” for families with income less than $125,000, “free” Pre-K to all.  (Open your wallets because all of this free stuff is coming from your paychecks.)

Energy and Fossil Fuels: “I will ban fracking, I won’t ban fracking.” Which Joe Biden do you believe?  America will be carbon neutral by 2050.  That is the Green New Deal. All C02 eliminated by 2035, 500 million solar panels and 60,000 wind turbines will be installed across the country. (The panels last about five years and most will have to come from China. Look up the fiasco in Australia, look at California, this does not cut it.)

Before you eliminate something that works, you have to invent a replacement that is just as good or better.  There isn’t any replacement on Earth yet.

Abortion: Plans to repeal the Hyde Amendment , forcing all those who are opposed to abortion to have to pay for them via their taxes.  Your religion or moral conscience be damned.

Illegal immigration: All actions taken by the Trump administration to slow the stream of illegals coming into this country will be reversed. All Deportations halted for a year except for criminals and we know where they will hide in sanctuary cities. Health care for illegals will be paid for by you and me.  Catch and release will be in full swing, in other words, no borders. The ACA will be extended to all Dreamers. No more workplace raids so jobs that could be done by Americans and would be will fall back to illegals. (one of the meat packing plants that was raided was able to fill its jobs with Americans so that line about jobs that “Americans won’t do ” is a crock.)  It is all about who you can get for less money. Biden will eliminate ICE and end cooperation between the federal government and states to remove illegals from the United States when amenable.

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule:  Suburban women pay attention!!!  Communities receiving certain federal funding will have to cede much control over the suburbs to the federal government.  They will have input into how many single-familyhouses can be built in the suburbs, where the schools should be and the libraries.  They will be able to decide where a high-rise building can be erected, including low-income housing in your neighborhood.  The local governments will lose control over their own zoning laws.  This rule was concocted by Obama and Biden.  The long-range plan being to citify the suburbs.

It was negated by Trump and Biden will reinstate it.

Health Care: Universal Health Care is the goal through the public option via Medicare to give competition to private insurance companies.  Lowering the age for Medicare from 65 to 60, causing its eventual collapse and eliminating private insurance all together.  Medicare is in big trouble already and is slated to run out of funds in the 2030s.  If you want long wait lines, rationed care, a shortage of doctors and nurses and the lowering of quality of care, this is for you.

All of this information and much more is there for the taking and reading.  This is only the tip of the iceberg.  Keep in mind what else is on the table, the destruction of the Supreme Court as it was meant to function, the possible loss of the filibuster and

the ensuing destruction of the Senate, the end of the Electoral College and start of one party rule in perpetuity.  These actions are being threatened right now by the Democratic Party.  If you love your country, you will turn away from these dangerous ideas

and protect your heritage. That is why this election should not be about PERSONALITY but should be decided upon based on POLICY..  Personalities come and go, but policy can be here forever.

Gayle Palmer

Williston Park

 

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