Voice of the people: We have to balance the federal budget

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FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) ORG XMIT: WX204

We have to balance the federal budget

The federal government has spent $1.10 trillion more than it has collected in the fiscal year 2023 resulting in a national deficit.

During the Trump administration, our debt ceiling was raised three times, while tax cuts for the wealthy were made permanent and tax cuts for average Americans were allowed to expire.  The last time the debt ceiling shutdown government, our credit rating went down, and interest rates went up!  Interest paid on our national debt is money not available to fund other needs and priorities.

Recently, rising interest rates and poor risk management have resulted in the failure of mid-sized banks.

How do we balance the budget?  We can't get blood out of a turnip. Should the wealthy pay a lower tax rate than the average American? Wealthy members of the House recently narrowly passed a bill that balances the budget by cutting programs that benefit inconvenient people, like the hungry, students, veterans, the disabled and elderly.

Think before you vote for people who are selling you out!

Robert Connors, Lakeland

The remaking of America

President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 "Immigration Nationality Reform Act" is remaking American culture and history, while adding global multicultural immigrant population growth every year. Unrepresented Americans feel it's time to drain the swamp of do-nothing federal and state partisan politicians wasting billions of their hard-working taxpaying dollars.

Middle class Americans are still paying federal taxes but is the history, culture and heritage that gave birth to this great nation being honesty represented by federal and state partisan politicians?

Current and past presidential administrations and congress, overall, did not address meaningful and honest governing of our country. They missed, ignored, and fumbled many issues and concerns. Consider America's failing: economy, healthcare, and national security crisis. Additionally, concerns include immigration growth and assimilation, terrorism, budget, debt, taxes, rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, strengthening our military and energy independence.

President Donald Trump promised in 2016 to Make America Great Again by addressing these failing Socialist issues. His dream has been stonewalled by a politically correct do-nothing partisan congress and anti-American and left-wing distractions - distractions like removing centuries old confederate history monuments and an unreliable news media.

It's voting time November 2024 to drain these Socialist swamps and secure America's taxpaying citizens' free markets constitutional republic.

Walt Back, Lakeland

Punishment for seditious conspiracy

Any individual(s) convicted of seditious conspiracy should have United States of America citizenship revoked and sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Ann Weeks, Lakeland

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