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President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not.
Elon Musk, for example, is a producer. He invented PayPal, made Tesla an industry leader and is taking humankind to Mars with SpaceX. What have you and I done that is comparable? He, just like many others of the hated “1%,” create products for society that you and I never thought of or knew how to create.
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Eric Falk was right to call out Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew’s Senate testimony as one-sided and misleading in his op-ed (“Not all Westmoreland residents want mail-in voting eliminated,” March 29, TribLIVE). As a county resident, I was proud and happy to vote by mail in 2020.
Current voter suppression efforts in Pennsylvania foreshadow a similar threat to democracy and restriction of rights seen in Georgia last month. The Pennsylvania Senate committee on election integrity and reform is collecting evidence of fraud to justify future laws aimed at voter suppression. Yet there was no fraud in Westmoreland, turnout was high, and our votes were counted and verified. Commissioners Chew, Gina Cerilli and Sean Kertes worked together to certify the will of the voters. There were bumps in the road, but the county did just fine in the 2020 election.