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In labor trafficking,
let punishment match crime
In June 2022, Noel, Joshua and Carlina Gamos have been convicted of human trafficking and labor-related prices in reference to Rainbow Vivid residential care amenities within the Bay Space. The Gamos household exploited Filipino nationals for 10 years, utilizing threats of arrest and deportation, false guarantees to help with immigration and different technique of management and coercion to maintain victims from reporting them or leaving.
Sentencing is Feb. 8 at 10:30 a.m. at San Mateo County Superior Court docket. Every member of the household is dealing with a sentence of 40 years, but activists are involved justice won't be served as a result of labor trafficking has but to seize the eye of the general public, and the judicial system is gradual to carry labor traffickers accountable.
Trafficking is about energy and management; like R. Kelley and Ghislaine Maxwell, the Gamos’ dehumanized their victims, traumatizing them for years, and ought to be held to account for his or her actions.
Sharan Dhanoa
Gilroy
Housing stance exhibits
Curry’s true character
Re. “Currys ask council to nix homes close to them,” Web page B2, Jan. 29:
In case you didn’t know that Steph Curry was a liberal hack with superficial stances, the latest NIMBY article about his Atherton residence ought to present you his true character.
Curry is more than pleased to advertise numerous social applications and the constructing of high-density housing, simply so long as they don’t affect him or his household or are constructed wherever close to his multimillion-dollar residence within the secluded, ultra-wealthy neighborhood of Atherton. This can be a typical stance of wealthy liberals immediately the place they wish to inform us what to spend our cash on and the way to dwell; primarily as a result of they're immune from these necessities since they're wealthy sufficient to dwell in areas that shall be exempted from any change. Additionally they have the funds for that greater costs and inflation can have minimal impact on their life-style.
Personal jet/mega-mansion liberals are one thing else on this world.
Devin Foley
Fremont
Tax legal guidelines designed
to defend seniors
Bruce Irion’s letter of Jan. 31 about seniors trapped by tax legal guidelines of their inappropriately massive homes (“Tax coverage exacerbates our housing disaster,” Web page A6) isn't utterly correct.
Federal revenue tax legislation permits married couples to exclude from revenue as much as $500,000 capital beneficial properties from the sale of their principal residence in the event that they meet sure residence necessities. California seniors who promote their major residence and purchase a inexpensive major residence in the identical county can take their property tax with them.
These legal guidelines shield seniors from being pressured from their properties by taxes.
Patricia Coffey
Orinda
Movie reveals trauma
of an abusive coach
As a Cal alum, I adopted with nice curiosity the problem of the previous girls’s swim coach, “Cal fires swim coach McKeever” (Web page A1, Feb. 1) on this morning’s East Bay Instances.
Mockingly, final evening, my spouse and I watched a 2014 film entitled “Whiplash” about an aspiring younger drummer dealing with an identical circumstance; one which Cal’s girls swimmers, little question, will need to have endured.
I like to recommend this film dramatization, extremely, to anybody who would possibly higher admire the harm achieved from abuse that an overzealous teacher, coach or mentor can inflict on a younger protégé.
John Ebert
San Ramon
‘Candorville’ is
a truthful messenger
I have to reply Evan Moss Evan’s letter to the editor (“Comedian is insensitive to police killing,” Web page A6, Feb. 1) with a full-throated endorsement of Darrin Bell’s “Candorville,” printed Jan. 29.
Sure, it's a cynical view of police violence towards individuals of colour; however it's primarily based on reality. I assumed it noteworthy sufficient to repeat it and paste it into my Fb web page, for others to see as properly.
Higher if Evan and different critics of “Candorville” deal with the issues alluded to within the comedian relatively than assault the messenger.
Bruce Joffe
Piedmont
Fact is, Republicans
are driving the debt
Nationwide debt info: Beneath Ronald Reagan’s eight years, debt went up 186%; underneath George H. W. Bush, the debt went up 54%; underneath Invoice Clinton, the debt went up 32%; underneath George W. Bush, it went up 105%; with Barack Obama, the debt went up 74%; underneath Donald Trump, the debt rose 33.1%.
Within the Nineteen Eighties annual deficits averaged $250 billion and budgets averaged $750 billion. Within the 2010s deficits averaged $1 trillion and budgets averaged $3 trillion. Debt elevated fairly steadily at 30% of the annual funds.
Republican administrations elevated debt at a lot higher charges than Democratic administrations. Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts didn't result in balanced budgets. The debt restrict was elevated thrice within the Trump years
Now the Home of Representatives needs to remove an IRS funds improve supposed to gather unpaid taxes from mega-rich, opposes a debt restrict improve and prefers to play Russian roulette with our financial system.
Jim Kenna
Brentwood