Trump's taxes, again
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Sunday, "I don't think Congress, particularly not this group of congressmen and women, are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume that President Trump's taxes will be."
The solution is simply to get Donald Trump to explain his taxes to Congress and the American people. After all, candidate Trump told us, "I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world." And, as president, "I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest CPA."
Maybe he could dumb it down enough for the greatest CPA and the rest of us to understand.
MIKE WATTS
Little Rock
Surveillance is legal
Both political parties are full of hypocrites. Court-authorized surveillance is legal and necessary if Americans are having meetings with Russians or any other foreign adversaries. Republicans would love to have gotten surveillance of Clinton campaign officials if they were meeting with foreign adversaries in order to get dirt on Trump.
One other point: I believe Trump is by far the worst national security president of the last 100 years. He is the one who is a threat to our country, not the FBI.
STEVE WHEELER
North Little Rock
About unemployment
I hear the Repubs talking about low unemployment, full employment, 3.8 percent unemployment, lowest unemployment ever ...
Well, we had low unemployment before we did away with slavery. Of course, the workers were not doing very well at the time--and they are still not doing very well.
WAYMOND TEAGUE
Greenbrier
Enron bubble's return
Given what Amazon has done to expand in recent years, something needing consideration is whether Amazon Inc. is a bubble similar to Enron.
If it is, and Amazon collapses, we may very well have a recession at a time when governments and central banks have run out of tools to restart the economy.
JACKSON RAYBURN
Little Rock
Game and Fish wise
I suspect that the letters to the editor castigating the Game and Fish Commission for euthanizing the "small" black bear would have sung a different tune if the writers had stepped out their back door to three policemen alerting them to a bear roundup. I suspect if they had not been there and I had stepped out my back door and encountered the "small" bear, one of us would have taken our leave of this old Earth, and I suspect it would not have been the bear.
A bear is a bear and no kin to humans, and thusly reacts to his nature when encountered by other species, especially humans. I fear if he had not been captured, any one of the small children playing in a yard across the street from me, and the human watching them, would possibly have been attacked and harmed. Also, at any time there are a number of small domesticated animals wandering around our neighborhood who would have been in great danger from this wild animal.
This neighborhood where I live was at one time a rural wooded area where these creatures roamed at will, but sadly due to new development with houses popping up like mushrooms, especially those monstrosities on the lake just behind my house, these animals are being forced out of their habitat and often unwisely fed human food to their detriment and might end up as this bear did.
I love animals as much as anyone, but they should be treated as the wild creatures they are, and the Game and Fish people have acted wisely in the decision to euthanize and prevent a possible tragedy of any kind.
WILLA ROMINE
Bryant
Appalled by action
Add my name to those who were appalled by the recent euthanization of a black bear cub which had wandered into a west Little Rock neighborhood. I assume that the cub had been incapacitated by a tranquilizer gun and he should therefore have posed no threat. Were they just too lazy and selfish to transfer him somewhere deep in the woods?
We would do well to remember that we are the ones encroaching upon the bears' habitat, and not the other way around. Our creator expects us to live in harmony and to have respect for our four-legged brothers and sisters.
Please change this policy of the Game and Fish Commission so that no more innocent animals will be destroyed.
CATHERINE LAMB
Little Rock
Editorial on 04/17/2019