Letters to the Editor — Texas Senate Bill 1, intellectual property, Texas border, political parties

Do not re-elect fleeing MPs

By fleeing to Washington, Texas lawmakers broke the moral contract between themselves and the state and its constituents. You don’t deserve to be re-elected.

Ed Zingone, temple

Prevention works in two ways

To the Austin Republicans trying to pass laws to prevent elections, you and Governor Greg Abbott are getting a hissing fit because your Democratic counterparts are obstructing the vote on these new laws. What’s it like getting a dose of your own medicine?

Jack Bowen, North Fort Worth

Seniors are involved in the draft vote

I appreciate your suggestion that the Suppression Session is not limited to Texas, but is taking place wherever Republicans can implement it. It is also definitely correct that franchise rights are primarily a civil rights issue for People of Color, but let me point out that franchise rights are a very big issue for seniors as well.

The anti-voter forces are trying to restrict our voting rights by postal voting in a number of ways, including asking us to reveal personal information that makes us even more likely to be targeted by scammers and hackers. Many of the people with disabilities affected are also seniors. Also, many frail seniors serve as polling officers at the polls, or at least we have in the past.

Gene Lantz, Dallas / Oak Cliff

Few will work for free

Subject: “Don’t Expect Similar Success,” by Dr. Stephen L. Brotherton, Wednesday Letters.

Brotherton’s letter about public-private partnerships and the threat of government seizure of intellectual property reminded me of a conversation with a cousin. He was a nationally renowned genetics doctor who wrote medical genetics books for use in genetics classes, and he was the founder and director of the genetics department of a medical school. A wonderful, intelligent, kind person.

He said that in order for our economy to support all citizens, the government should not allow anyone to keep more than $ 1 million a year; that was all anyone needed. Any money earned beyond that should be given to the government to help the disadvantaged.

I asked him to think about it. If you hit a million dollars before the end of the year and have to give up all other hard-earned financial gains to the government, why should anyone keep working? Why not just enjoy the $ 1 million you have earned and take the rest of the year off?

What would happen to our country if people who are important to the continuity of our economy and critical functions like doctors quit their jobs after accumulating $ 1 million? He laughed and said, “Well, I didn’t think of that.”

JoAnn Jackson, Grapevine

Start with deadly drug smugglers

Subject: “The rise of borders calls for new solutions – better work visa and asylum systems are part of the response to the recent influx of migrants,” by Holly Kuzmich, July 2 statement.

In relation to this article about problems on the US-Mexico border, I hoped that Kuzmich would point out possible solutions to this persistent problem. I’ve been a longtime supporter of their boss, former President George W. Bush, but I’ve been disappointed.

It was a column full of half-finished thoughts and it failed to address the one topic that we need to address before anyone else before we get to the crowds rushing to America: the criminals who use these thousands of nameless people as shields, about their smuggling of deadly drugs like fentanyl into the US interior.

Above all, this must come first. By making it easier for you to enter the United States, it is like the Biden government doing business with international criminals, ladies and gentlemen.

Jack Lavelle, Phoenix

Free to go

One of the best things about America is that all naggers and haters are free to leave.

Donald Jones, Wylie

Ban political parties

Re: “Tired of Both Parties,” by James Francis, Wednesday Letters.

I agree with the writer of this letter who states that he is fed up with the high-ranking extremists from both parties who achieve nothing but manage to meet their narcissistic needs by seeing themselves on cable news and social media. A modest proposal à la George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: a constitutional amendment that bans all political parties. And while we’re at it, we’re banning nominations for candidates who actually want the job.

Don West, Dallas

Letters make us think

Reading the Daily Opinion page, three letters posted Wednesday really hit the bull’s eye – James Francis of Carrollton on the state of the politician antics, Mary Prichard of Highland Village who spoke succinctly about former President Donald Trump, and the inspirational letter from Midlothian’s Barbara Kuykendall, reminding us how history can speak to us to ease the tensions of the present when viewed with a cool head.

It is so wonderful to read the daily letters even if you do not agree with all of the opinions. It’s educational because it makes me think in a different direction.

Sydney Brainard, Downtown Dallas

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