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Howard Terminal plan
is about actual property
The Howard Terminal Stadium deal is just not about protecting the A’s Baseball membership in Oakland. It's a actual property deal plain and easy.
The A’s house owners are holding the final ball crew hostage in return for his or her very personal privatized, skyscraping luxurious village enclave, on land at present in full use by the Port of Oakland.
The oft-chanted slogan “Greater than Baseball“ appropriately identifies the ruse leveraging the baseball stadium for a huge actual property coup de gras. In Oakland Councilman Loren Taylor’s personal phrases: “I see Howard Terminal as an actual property transaction deal. Solely 10% has to do with a baseball stadium.”
The Oakland Metropolis Council should separate and desk the Fischer Luxurious Village from the ballpark. Then see if the house owners nonetheless wish to hold the A’s in Oakland.
Cynthia Billings-Roan
Oakland
Rodeo occasions are
for revenue, not historical past
Re: “Proposed ban on wild-cow milking threatens rodeos,” Web page A1, Aug 14, and “Animal rights advocates are asking an excessive amount of,” Web page A6, Aug. 19)
The author appears out of contact with actuality. She quotes a four-year-old 2018 Gallup Ballot indicating solely 5% of Individuals are vegetarians. This share is rising quickly yearly.
She additionally doesn’t understand that almost all of meat bought by shoppers as we speak comes from manufacturing unit farms. Most hamburger comes from spent manufacturing unit farm dairy cows who can now not produce milk. There isn't any “roping and using, bronco busting” or wild-cow milking occurring, or necessity for bucking straps at manufacturing unit farms. And if her level is to protect rancher’s expertise of the previous, there was by no means any wild-cow milking or want for bucking straps included in ranching chores.
These occasions featured at a rodeo as we speak are used purely for leisure and to make a revenue.
Kathy Gleason
Harmony
Prop. 30 will drive
away extra taxpayers
Re. “California is leaking important high-income taxpayers,” Web page A12, Aug. 21:
Because the outdated saying goes and as Dan Walters rightly famous in a latest column, the extra you tax one thing the much less of it you get. For California, meaning fewer of the high-income earners who contribute the majority of the state’s discretionary income. Some are leaving, spurred in no small half by California’s nation-topping revenue tax charges. And it’ll solely worsen with Proposition 30, a disastrous measure on the November poll that might push taxes on the rich even greater.
Trip-hailing firm Lyft is advancing Proposition 30 in a cynical, self-serving marketing campaign that received’t profit Californians and can solely harm our competitiveness. With a document price range, massive surplus and big reserves, California doesn’t want greater taxes. What we want are options to issues like housing, homelessness and crime which can be shrinking our inhabitants, hurting lower-income and weak populations, and diminishing financial alternative. Voters ought to reject Proposition 30.
Jim Wunderman
Nice Hill
Congress ought to restore
expanded youngster tax credit score
As Individuals file their taxes, it’s necessary to recollect how necessary the expanded Baby Tax Credit score (CTC) has been for youngsters and households.
In keeping with a Brookings Establishment research, the 2021 modifications to the CTC had a profound impression. Baby poverty dropped by 40%. CTC recipients lived more healthy lives, invested extra of their kids’s training, and had been much less prone to depend on payday loans. Households spent their CTC funds on lease, meals and garments for his or her children — the identical prices going up for us all.
However some lawmakers stopped an extension of the CTC funds. In consequence, 3.7 million kids fell beneath the poverty line in January. And 1.4 million CTC households have left their jobs as a result of they'll now not afford youngster care.
I name on Congress to increase the CTC with everlasting full refundability and resume the month-to-month funds instantly.
John Oda
San Francisco
To combat inflation, decrease
taxes, vote conservative
If you vote this November, don’t overlook which social gathering handed the so-called Inflation Discount Act that will increase authorities spending and tax breaks by $485 billion. Historical past tells us that that is precisely the alternative factor that the federal government ought to do to cut back inflation.
If you're bored with paying excessive gasoline and meals costs, vote for a conservative who will scale back authorities spending and decrease your taxes.
James Tasker
Moraga
With democracy at
stake, vote Democrat
Variations between the Democratic and the Republic events turn out to be clearer each day.
Republicans wish to push the negatives, with such basic statements as “We now have misplaced our means.” They proceed to say that the sky is falling. However the actuality is that they haven't any optimistic options to enhance or repair something. “Reducing the federal debt” or “reducing taxes” will translate into no optimistic modifications for common Individuals. In truth, such speak will in all probability result in extra makes an attempt to cut back Social Safety and Medicare advantages.
Alternatively, Democrats have handed the Inflation Discount Act, which provides 1000's of latest IRS brokers, who will go after accumulating the $1 trillion annual “tax hole,” from those that don't pay the taxes they need to. Democrats additionally stress that “Democracy is on the poll.”
Your best option in November will likely be to vote for Democrats.
George Fulmore
Emeryville