{"id":483403,"date":"2026-10-03T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483403\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:14:07","slug":"letters-passing-prop-40-wont-lead-to-a-nightmare-scenario-for-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483403\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Passing Prop. 40 won’t lead to a nightmare scenario for state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submit your letter to the editor via this form<\/a>. Read more Letters to the Editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prop. 40 won\u2019t lead to nightmare scenarios<\/p>\n

Re: \u201cTaxing billionaires nationally avoids ruining local job hubs<\/a>\u201d (Page A6, Sept. 22).<\/p>\n

Very clever scare tactic response \u2014 \u201cthe Billionaire Tax isn\u2019t good enough, so don\u2019t do it. In fact, it may be bad.\u201d What a crock. As if Sergey Brin and Larry Page wouldn\u2019t have started Google if a billionaire tax existed. They were college kids.<\/p>\n

And as for some billionaires possibly leaving California \u2014 great. Anybody that rich who is so greedy as to disrupt their life for a roundoff error on their net worth is a sociopath. We don\u2019t need them. Their money is corrupting our government, and they are so good at protecting their wealth that their taxes are a roundoff error on our state budget anyway.<\/p>\n

And as for reduced job creation \u2014 hasn\u2019t the author noticed we have a surplus of jobs? How is adding more jobs going to solve serious issues like housing? It will only make everything worse.<\/p>\n

Robert Lipp
Los Gatos<\/p>\n

Republicans clearly don\u2019t understand communism<\/p>\n

Re: \u201cTrump decries Democrats as \u2018communists,\u2019 even as he looks to impress China\u2019s communist leader<\/a>\u201d (Sept. 21).<\/p>\n

Republicans are now calling for measures to prevent communism from taking over the country \u2014 obviously without understanding what \u201ccommunism\u201d means. Disregarding how certain world leaders use the word to scare people for their own purposes, it simply means state ownership and control of production and distribution of goods and services. How in the world could that even be possible in this country, with private ownership so widespread, honored and time-tested?<\/p>\n

Communism means\u00a0 \u201cState ownership of the means of production and distribution.\u201d That\u2019s all, and quite common even here \u2014 in the free enterprise, capitalistic USA.<\/p>\n

Jorg Aadahl
San Mateo<\/p>\n

Voters must respond to Trump\u2019s election abuse<\/p>\n

Re: \u201cTrump can use voter database<\/a>\u201d (Page A1, Sept. 26).<\/p>\n

Here are three ways to respond to Trump\u2019s voter challenge:<\/p>\n

Deception: Register as a Republican but vote Democratic. Rebellion: Go into the streets and demonstrate. Due Process: If your right to vote is challenged, demand notice, take the matter to a hearing and have an impartial judge or jury decide the issue. Due Process is guaranteed under the Fifth Amendment<\/a> of our Constitution.<\/p>\n

A one-party system, be it Republican or Democrat, will only serve the interests of a tyrant. America is being divided; we need to unite. Using the protections granted to us under the Constitution, we\u2019ll win.<\/p>\n

Morris Chassen
San Jose<\/p>\n

25th Amendment looms over Trump\u2019s arch plan<\/p>\n

Re: \u201cTrump says planned arch would host drones, snipers<\/a>\u201d (Page A3, Sept. 21).<\/p>\n

A \u201cvictory arch hosting drones and snipers\u201d is either the play-fantasy of a 5-year-old boy building a fort of Lego blocks for his toy soldiers, or the psychotic ramblings of an old man who is no longer tethered to reality.<\/p>\n

Just what would these drones and snipers be protecting at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery \u2014 the graves of deceased military veterans?<\/p>\n

Since the old man in question has access to the nuclear war start button, an immediate, complete psychiatric assessment is in order to determine if the 25th Amendment needs to be implemented before we all die in a global thermonuclear war.<\/p>\n

Warren Cirelli
Hollister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Prop. 40 won\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1400,184,7,5307,189305,536,187,2306,181,2953,1564,190,975,395,13,1748,42552,88,90,89,2651,397,198,200,1694,1695],"class_list":["post-483403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-elections","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-ballot-measures","tag-campus-sexual-assault","tag-donald-trump","tag-gilroy","tag-higher-education","tag-latest-headlines","tag-letters","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-los-gatos","tag-opinion","tag-peninsula","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-san-benito-county","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-mateo","tag-san-mateo-county","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-taxes","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}