GOP plays down Trump's 'dictatorship' for 'less government.' Is it believable? | Letters

GOP insists 'less government' not 'dictatorship'

Letter writers fear the GOP will be authoritarian, and that Donald Trump will be a dictator. But, they have the entire scenario reversed. One of Trump’s objectives when he was in office was to get rid of all ridiculous laws that did nothing more than hamper citizens’ everyday lives. Trump even had a policy that if a politician wanted to enact a law, they had to get rid of at least two laws before they could do so.

President Biden has done the exact opposite and enacted laws that dictate how citizens go about their daily lives. The Democratic Party has always felt that the average citizen was not capable of living a normal life without help from the government. The GOP’s philosophy has always been that the less government meddled in citizens' lives, the more successful they, and the country, would be. Ronald Regan said it best, “The scariest nine words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

James Rich, Jupiter

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The economy favors the very rich

Who can say for sure if all of the interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this past year have really helped? Americans really don’t feel good about the economy due to all of the higher prices we are paying for food, healthcare, housing and other things. They say higher prices are due to ”inflation." In reality, this is “gouge-flation.”

America’s largest healthcare companies raked in more than $41 billion of profits in 2022. Housing has gone up 10% to 13%, depending what source you look up, and researchers estimate if the top1% of Americans paid their full amount of taxes, it would raise $175 billion a year. Instead they bilk us. In the end, our Congress has no problem funding $886 billion in the defense budget. However, when it comes to healthcare, paid family leave or universal pre-K, there are no funds for us, even though we pay the taxes for most everything else. So, we have to be very discriminating with our purchase power. That’s about all we've got in this economy, which works well for the top 1%.

Linda Kramer, Palm Beach Gardens

Gaza's 'genocide' label anti-semetic

I must respond to the Dec. 13 letter, “Humanity warrants a Gaza cease fire,” in which the writer called Israel’s battle against Hamas, a “genocide” and “mass murder.” Since its barbaric Oct. 7 attack, Hamas continues to fire daily rocket barrages at Israel’s cities, while it still holds more than 100 Israelis and internationals hostages. No Gaza cease fire can even be considered until the rockets stop and the hostages, or the rest of their corpses, are returned to Israel and the USA. What is happening in Gaza, happens in every war zone. That’s why they call war hell.

Gerald Stone, Boynton Beach

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Less government, not authoritarian rule, the mantra of Republicans