Proud mother
Lynn Schmidt’s opinion piece “Raising kids isn’t the responsibility of the government,” in the Omaha World-Herald on Sept 19th should be applauded!
We made a choice to raise our children the best way we could. We made the choice for me to be a stay-at-home mother. My husband worked very hard for me to be able to do it.
This was in the 50’s and 60’s and our parents helped us also, not so much in babysitting, but in much different ways.
When our children started college they worked for it, and we sighed a big sigh as we felt we gave them a good start.
Sure, there were a lot of things we didn’t do — no vacations, no brand name clothes. Back then, it wasn’t that important. But we did the best we could. We had our faith and the love of God behind us to help us make our decisions. Sure we made many mistakes, but that is life and back then we had no government telling us what we could or couldn’t do with our children. We just did our best, as we all did back then. Why such a change? Maybe we should not let the government have so much say-so in our lives.
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The attorney general’s focus
I find it very concerning that the attorney general has decided to target a grassroots campaign lead by moms of sick children. Instead, he should focus his attention on the 300 people had signed an affidavit to remove their names from an initiative seeking to enshrine Nebraska’s current abortion law into the state constitution, claiming they had been deceived.
My friends and I personally notarized dozens of affidavits from individuals who wanted to have their names removed, and who shared stories of circulators being dishonest about the petition’s intent, not reading the object statement, or being aggressive with their collection tactics. The attorney general seems to be choosing to ignore a real issue. I think this is an unacceptable display of partisan political maneuvering at the expense of the people’s right to speak their minds on important issues. In my opinion, Hilgers should be ashamed of himself.
Extended streetcar proposal
The Omaha Streetcar Authority should stop investigating the extension of the streetcar into Council Bluffs without an actual vote of the taxpayers in Council Bluffs. The idea of an $80 million recreational bridge across the Missouri River is not high on our priority list.
Sam Irwin, Council Bluffs
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Pulse contributor praises Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley for studying tax increment financing.
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Generating property tax relief
Nebraska State Treasurer Tom Briese’s Oct. 10 Midlands Voices column, “Special session created ‘a nice win on behalf of Nebraska property taxpayers’” mentioned three benefits of the Legislature’s passing of Legislative Bill 34 that will not be repeated here, as they do not relate to the reason for my letter.
He never mentioned that Nebraska taxpayers who paid their 2023 real estate taxes in 2024 will not be able to claim a credit for those taxes on their 2024 Nebraska income.
The 2025 Nebraska Legislature needs to correct this mistake so that all Nebraska taxpayers receive the same treatment.
James Hopkins, Sioux City, Iowa
End the Federal Reserve
We need desperately to end the Federal Reserve. The Fed has been the source of booms, busts, and the ongoing impoverishment of Americans since its founding. The Fed uses its expanding power to damage the economy, increase inequality, and impoverish ordinary Americans. The Fed has expanded its own power since the 2008 financial crisis.
The Constitution has no provision for establishing a private banking cartel to manage the economy. Managed economies never work. An unbiased critical look at the Federal Reserve is needed and we need to end the Fed altogether immediately.
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