Letters: Trump’s right on eliminating capital gains tax on home sales
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Free home sales from capital gains tax In a current article the Wall Street Journal communicated that President Trump is exploring removing capital gains taxes on home sales to spur the housing industry This would be a great benefit to homeowners particularly in the Bay Area where home prices have appreciated The supply of available homes would increase for those seeking to purchase because long-time homeowners would no longer have to fear confiscatory taxes on their gains if they sold Related Articles Letters We must learn to co-exist with mountain lions Letters Voters have the power to lift nation s veil of fear Letters Copying Texas GOP s power grab will cost Democrats voters trust Letters One hopes Attorney General Rob Bonta suits protect our civil rights Letters Donald Trump s actions don t amount to accomplishments Eliminate capital gains taxes so everyone can benefit Thomas Baker San Jose Column creates an Olympic loser for L A Re Los Angeles should halt plans to host Olympic games Page A July Joe Mathews suggestion that Los Angeles refuse to host the Olympic Games unless Donald Trump accedes to certain demands is a bridge too far Mathews does make a respectful episode why L A should not have made the bid to host the Olympics in the first place but that is not the situation L A is now in Trump would never accede to the demands that Mathews lists so L A would be forced to either back down from its threat to withdraw from hosting the Olympics or in fact withdraw Either way L A and California would lose and Trump would win I share Mathews negative feelings about Trump and his policies but we must pick and choose our battles with Trump wisely and the Olympic Games are not the right battle David Muhlitner San Jose ICE cartoon only serves to inflame masses debate With respect to the editorial page cartoon published on July Page A I must object to the characterization of ICE agents as akin to criminals While ICE agents across the country are routinely demonized by politicians and media personalities they have faced an increase in assaults through the first months of this year compared to the same period in Political cartoonists have every right to air their grievances toward elected bureaucrats and criticize our nation s immigration approach However they would do well to consider that ICE agents are apolitical actors duty-bound to follow lawful orders and enforce federal immigration law as distasteful as their tactics may seem to specific commentators The vilification of these federal law enforcement personnel plenty of of whom are our friends family and neighbors purely seeking to earn an honest living will serve to inflame our political discourse at the the greater part inopportune time Mark Habelt Burlingame Stop appeasing Trump and resist instead The tragedy of the Munich Agreement was not just that appeasing a rabid dictator failed to sate his appetite for further conquest and domination Instead it is what it might have averted The German general staff distrusted Hitler s aggressive plans and had decided that if he invaded Czechoslovakia they would instigate a coup and unseat him British Prime Minister Chamberlain gave Hitler the free gift of the Sudetenland and eventually all of Czechoslovakia without the Germans having to fire a shot This convinced the generals that Hitler was correct to challenge the West and they gave up on their coup plans In the modern day we have an authoritarian of our own All those who try to appease him by bending the knee are instead emboldening him to proceed with his overthrow of our established democracy Instead we must all resist or else lose our rights for a very long time Ed Taub Mountain View Trump pronouncements an exercise in projection In what must be the bulk preposterous example of projection Donald Trump has called Joe Biden a mentally incompetent FOOL and our WORST EVER President who came close to destroying our Country and called him grossly incompetent So if Biden is mentally incompetent and evil what do we call someone who separated children from their families starved entire populations by defunding USAID halted decades-long cancer and other life-saving biological research and is a convicted felon And that s just for starters Irv Brenner Palo Alto Faith demands we call for Gaza ceasefire Multifaith Voices for Peace Justice s Steering Committee joins religious and humanitarian communities around the world in condemning The Israeli army s relentless killing of Palestinians multiple of them children various at aid centers seeking food The Israeli establishment s blockade of secure and safe humanitarian aid distribution into Gaza essentially using starvation as a weapon of war Deadly settler violence occurring in the West Bank Our governing body s assistance of the unremitting bloodshed putting at exposure true safeguard for all people of the region We call for an end to all violence unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians recognizing every person s worth dignity and human rights All of our faith traditions teach us that every human life is sacred It is our religious and moral obligation to speak out against these atrocities and protect innocent people whoever and wherever they are Rabbi Amy Eilberg and the Rev Diana Gibson Multifaith Voices for Peace Justice Steering Committee Menlo Park
