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Federal lottery may
profit all People
The current $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot has generated publicity.
I counsel a U.S. authorities program with just about no administrative price and with a steady profit for nearly each American resident: a free lottery. Each three months, the Social Safety Administration would randomly select a Social Safety variety of one grownup. The holder of that quantity would obtain, say, $50 million from the U.S. Treasury free from federal revenue tax.
The lottery’s annual price of $200 million can be a trivial portion of the multi-trillion greenback federal finances. But each grownup Social Safety card holder would always maintain a free lottery ticket with a $50 million prize.
At low price, the federal government would give all People fixed hope of an immensely higher life. Few authorities packages can duplicate that.
William Wang
Emeritus Professor, College of California Hastings School of Legislation
San Francisco
Senate ought to exonerate
the Port Chicago 50
I’m advocating on behalf of the employees’ rights and civil rights pioneers referred to as the Port Chicago 50.
Our nation’s present Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorizes Division of Protection actions for Fiscal 12 months 2023, features a provision that expresses the sense of Congress that the Port Chicago 50 needs to be exonerated. The invoice efficiently handed the U.S. Home of Representatives and is now awaiting approval from the U.S. Senate. The identical exoneration language is included within the NDAA for Fiscal 12 months 2020.
I urge my elected officers to work with the president of the USA and the secretary of the Navy to revive integrity and honor to the legacies of the sailors via full exoneration of the Port Chicago 50.
Todd Walker
Walnut Creek
UCLA’s transfer to Huge Ten
dangerous for Cal, dangerous for Bruins
Within the shock cash seize by UCLA of their try to hitch the Huge Ten Convention, a few of the objections to the Bruins soccer staff’s transfer to Huge Ten competitors was that it might financially hurt Cal’s soccer tv income.
And the proposed treatment to that downside is to compensate Cal financially for deserting a rival on the taking part in subject.
I hope Berkeley rejects financial compensation as a result of UCLA’s transfer is motivated by cash forwarded to their athletic division, and more cash spent on the college’s soccer leisure division is a transfer within the flawed course on universities’ supposed objective to teach college students.
Nebraska joined the Huge Ten a decade in the past, and I promise UCLA followers you received’t prefer it; except you get pleasure from highway video games in New Jersey and D.C., additionally November video games at evening in Minnesota.
I hope smarter heads prevail.
Ricky Fulton
Omaha, Neb.
Enhance overseas assist
for well being care programs
Re. “Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is essential to local weather,” Web page A2, Nov. 16:
The information of the rise in world inhabitants to eight billion is staggering and worrisome.
Nations in West Africa are already bearing the brunt of a scarcity of assets and infrastructure and are prone to be disproportionately affected as assets get slimmer. Nations like Nigeria, the place inhabitants progress is tied for third, are affected by a scarcity of funding for well being staff and fundamental medical provides. Effectively-trained and outfitted well being workforces are important for constructing sustainable, resilient well being programs, particularly in areas of the world which are already a step behind.
Lately re-elected Rep. Barbara Lee of District 12 is uniquely positioned to make a distinction as chair of the subcommittee that decides on overseas assist funding. I urge her to simply accept the Senate overseas assist language rising funding for frontline well being care staff.
Sabrina Baffert
Berkeley
Concepts will prevail
over scare ways
Re: “A number of phrases on the great thing about silence from Republicans” (Web page A7, Nov. 17), Leonard Pitts Jr. writes that he needs to get pleasure from the great thing about the silence of Republican election deniers after their drubbing on the polls.
I definitely wouldn’t deny Pitts his second of enjoyment however would counsel that he ultimately have a greater response than the close to silence of President Biden earlier than the election, on points like inflation, crime, border safety, and so on.
Scare ways could win elections, and their foundation may even have some benefit, however they can’t successfully run international locations. Solely successful concepts will try this.
Daniel Mauthe
Livermore
Cease selling
Trump’s election bid
Think about my shock to listen to that your newspaper determined to put above the fold, in daring black sort, the headline of the previous twice impeached president’s plans to run once more. This was your determination to your lead story?
