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Do homework earlier than
heading to Texas
Re. “Californians are fleeing state earnings tax,” Web page 6, July 21:
I maintain studying about Californians transferring to Texas due to excessive prices, however earlier than they do I might advise them to do extra analysis on the monetary variations between states.
Greater than doubtless in the event that they transfer to Texas they are going to expertise a big discount in pay; the minimal wage in Texas is $7.25 however in California, it's transferring to $15.00. The median family earnings for 2 in 2021 was $71,287 in Texas and $83,435 in California.
One other issue for owners to contemplate is that properties are taxed at an optimum charge of 1.8% in Texas versus 0.76% in California.
I moved from Texas to California in 2011 and acquired a forty five% enhance in pay for mainly the identical job tasks. Individuals can transfer if they need, however I might advocate that they verify the info earlier than making their choice.
Jerry Marsh
Rio Vista
Maintain unsafe CCUS
out of California
Carbon seize, utilization and storage (CCUS) is getting a lot of consideration from Sacramento and Washington D.C. as a “instrument” to assist struggle excessive climate and local weather change.
Whereas vital questions stay in regards to the efficacy, security and value of CCUS, there may be one software that requires no debate. Pumping captured CO2 into oil wells to extract oil that may not be in any other case recoverable is senseless. This course of known as CCUS for enhanced oil restoration (EOR) has been proven to emit about 4 occasions extra carbon than it captures. It's also not economically sustainable with out taxpayer subsidies. CCUS for EOR isn't presently utilized in California, and Sen. Monique Limon’s invoice SB 1314, now within the Meeting, would be certain that CCUS couldn't be utilized in California for EOR.
CCUS for EOR is a false “local weather resolution,” extraordinarily unsafe for frontline communities, and prices taxpayers. Urge your Assemblymember to help SB 1314
Valerie Ventre-Hutton
Walnut Creek
Photo voltaic isn't the inexperienced
resolution we thought
Re. “Byproduct of the state’s photo voltaic trade? Deluge of poisonous waste,” Web page A1, July 15:
The legislation of unintended penalties strikes once more.
Current information articles reveal that the price and penalties of recycling and/or disposing of photo voltaic electrical panels on the finish of their helpful lives are big and that such recycling or disposal ends in the discharge of great portions of harmful parts that may permeate the atmosphere, endangering human beings and nearly all residing issues.
It doesn't seem that this concern was addressed in any method when photo voltaic vitality was being touted as the best way to save lots of planet Earth. To the “Local weather Mafia” photo voltaic electrical energy era felt like a good suggestion, so let’s soar in complete hog and go all out for it. Why fear about one thing that isn’t going to occur for 25 years? We will cope with photo voltaic panel disposal later.
Effectively, “later” is now.
William Crisick
Walnut Creek
Supreme Courtroom rulings
promote overpopulation
Thanks for publishing the considerate piece by the economist and professor Kathryn Anne Edwards in regards to the change of the standing of ladies after the current Supreme Courtroom ruling (“‘Proper to life’ threatens ladies’s livelihoods — and their lives,” Web page A7, July 19).
What she didn't point out is that these six justices with Roman Catholic Church backgrounds are all selling overpopulation. In 1930, the U.S. inhabitants was 123 million, within the 12 months 2000 it was 281 million, and the census reported the 2020 inhabitants was 331 million. In 2050, one wonders the place will we discover a parking place.
Dirk Neyhart
Berkeley
After Roe, time
to resurrect, signal ERA
I respect the steps President Biden has taken thus far to guard abortion rights, now that Roe has been overturned, however I don't really feel that he has gone far sufficient. What we want is equality and meaning signing the Equal Rights Modification.
The ERA has been ratified by 38 states. All that's required now's to have the Nationwide Archive finalize the modification. All of the archives want is the president’s go-ahead, and I urge him to take action now.
If the president feels that Congress wants to acknowledge the modification’s ratification first, the Home – the physique that initially handed the modification in 1972 – would achieve this if he pushed them to take action.
We want the ERA. It must change into the legislation of the land.
Lorin Salem
Alameda