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San Jose ought to rethink
sweeping homeless
On Thursday the town of San Jose will likely be sweeping the unhoused of us residing in RVs at Columbus Park, on the point of construct a canine park. If their RVs don’t run, the town will crush them leaving of us with no dwelling and with nothing. Is that this inhumane? I believe so.
There aren’t any RV-safe parking websites. The town must rethink this and discover a answer.
Gail Anne Osmer
San Jose
Spend your individual cash
earlier than spending others’
Relating to M.R.and Sujatha Pamidi’s letter(“Reparations owed by slaveholders’ descendants,” Web page A6, April 4) about slaveholders’ descendants paying reparations, it's at all times good to listen to how keen some of us are to spend different peoples’ cash.
No, I'm not the descendant of a slaveholder, so I suppose that may exempt me from fee; nevertheless, I overlook how demanding cash from harmless individuals for the sins of their relations, lengthy useless, is the American approach. Those that are so wanting to throw cash on the downside are greater than welcome to empty their very own financial institution accounts and hunt down a slave descendant to counterpoint.
5 million dollars? Completely. When you have it, give it away. That features Gov. Gavin Newsom, too. I welcome generosity from these so keen to provide our tax dollars away, however eagerly donate your individual cash first, and set an instance.
Jay Morrett
San Jose
UC should repair extra
than switch course of
Re: “UC has a plan to make it simpler for neighborhood school college students to switch” (Web page A1, April 1).
Reasonably priced increased training in California shouldn’t be unique. However the complexities of the switch course of to UCs omit under-resourced college students. As an alternative of renewing switch pathways, California ought to take a look at the large image, which additionally solves pupil housing shortages. California can be taught from Penn State’s 2+2 Plan. “Penn State college students can begin a level program at any one among 20 undergraduate campus places throughout Pennsylvania.”
How about making monetary assist to low-income California college students quite simple? Look what Stanford does. “Undergraduate households with annual incomes beneath $75,000 is not going to be anticipated to pay tuition, room or board at Stanford.” UCs are ranked as the highest universities, attracting many out-of-state undergraduate college students. A lot of them are from prosperous households. How about matching the out-of-state tuition to rival Ivy League faculties?
As an alternative of attempting to repair one space, assume exterior the field. Allocate the sources extra equally, then the system will transfer ahead.
Cindy Tieu
San Jose
Letter’s concentrate on
earnings tax misleads
Fascinating letter from John Fulgado (“Rein in state’s excessive earnings tax charges,” Web page A6, April 4) made all of the extra exceptional by the truth that solely final week, a printed evaluation confirmed that California just isn't even within the high 20% p.c of states with excessive tax “burdens.”
Surprisingly, Fulgado chooses to concentrate on “earnings tax charges” moderately than “total tax burden,” i.e. the proportion of their whole earnings that Californians truly pay in all state taxes — earnings, property and gross sales taxes.
His argument towards excessive charges of earnings tax is that they contribute to an absence of funding, and subsequently to excessive unemployment. There isn't a proof that California’s unemployment fee is considerably increased than the nationwide common. One report reveals California rating forty third, among the many 50 states, in unemployment.
It could possibly be that Fulgado has an undeclared political axe to grind.
Howard Thomas
Los Gatos
Congress should do higher
on local weather change support
Re: “Local weather change is a disaster of morality” (Web page A6, March 30).
In his letter responding to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change, Doug Peterson factors out: “The world’s poorest nations produce a small fraction of mankind’s extreme greenhouse gases, however they're struggling the best quantity of hurt from the ensuing local weather atrocity.”
Worldwide local weather finance is a approach for us to do what's morally proper and strategically astute. The Biden administration has requested Congress for about $5 billion in financing to assist climate-impacted creating nations strengthen their resilience to local weather impacts and increase their use of renewable power.
Funding better use of renewable power will scale back future greenhouse emissions that gasoline local weather disasters worldwide. Such funding will even enhance U.S. green-energy firms’ gross sales.
Biden’s earlier request for $5 billion in such funding was lowered to $1 billion. Let’s encourage Congress to do higher this time.
William Kirkpatrick
San Jose