Republicans and Democrats reflect on the 2021 Legislative Session
Last updated 5/3/2021 at 11:47am
Gov. Greg Gianforte held a press conference Friday to give a recap of the Montana Legislature’s accomplishments in advancing the agenda its Republican leadership shares with his administration, in the wake of Democratic leaders also discussing the session the previous day. Gianforte said with Republicans in control of the Legislature and executive branch they’ve seized the opportunity to make the state more competitive compared to its neighbors by lowering taxes and increasing exemptions for businesses, especially on equipment taxes, as well as simplifying the state tax code.
It is mortally unfortunate that anti-maskers have decided that it is their constitutional right to not wear a mask. The Golden Rule says otherwise. Further, there is no constitutional right to infect your neighbor. Isnât deliberately not avoiding infecting someone else tantamount to unprovoked assault?
Now is not the time to be anti-science or anti-facts. COVID-19 is highly contagious and life-threatening. It kills a number of people greater than 9/11 every day. We are headed to more U.S. deaths then in World War II.
There is a significant probability that if you are reading this right now, you would not have survived childhood without science. Older folks well remember the childhood diseases that gave the Grim Reaper multiple opportunities for them to not make it to the 21st century. Everyone has dodged a lot of germy bullets thanks to science.