Editor,
A recent study of U.S. housing notes only 12 counties in the United States have affordable housing for a single minimum wage earner; Carroll County isn’t one of them. Fortunately, for many people, a governmental assistance program helps pay those impossible rents. For the 2018 budget, Donald Trump and the Republicons have removed that assistance.
Daily, everything is more expensive, and we are still digging out of the almost apocalyptical, global financial crisis left by George Bush’s Republicon administration. To staunch the 2007/2008 monetary hemorrhage of almost a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, Democrats enacted the Dodd-Frank bill; a law that forced investment banks to self fund so we taxpayers wouldn’t be on the hook again for their misdeeds. This Republicon Congress, with Trump’s help, just overturned that law. We’re again at risk of losing our jobs, homes, cars and money due to greed.
After a bitter struggle with Republicons in Congress in 2009, more of us have health insurance today and can see the doctor. The Democratic law called Obamacare, offers subsidies to so many who struggle to pay their rent and can’t afford health insurance. In their upcoming Trumpcare/AHCA healthcare plan, The Republicons have eliminated all subsidies (think expanded Medicaid); along with pre-existing condition exemptions and preventive health care.
Obamacare added 17 million people to the rolls of the insured and Republicon’s Trumpcare will remove them all, plus an additional 6 million more.
Our country was founded on the principle of the “common good.” Social programs provide that “common good” which is what our taxes should pay for, not more war and the greedy rich.
Isn’t it time to let our state and federal Republicon representatives know you care about our common good? Call, they need to hear from you.
Sheri Hanson