Letter to the editor: Republicans' plans

In her letter, “Republicans are not planning for our well-being”, Patty Satalia said, “The Republican Party has no plan.” The Republicans have a commonsense plan. It is to:

• Patrol the border, build a wall and keep asylum-seekers in Mexico, not let in over 1.5 million illegal immigrants.

• Combat the pandemic with vaccines and treatments, not disperse thousands of untested and unvaccinated people throughout the U.S.

• Provide testing, not say we need more testing, do nothing and then say no one saw the need for more testing.

• Support police funding, not “defund the police” when crime is rising.

• Withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021, not select an arbitrary withdrawal date, and then withdraw, leaving hundreds of people and billions of dollars of equipment to the enemy.

• Continue domestic oil production, not reduce future production and ask other countries to increase their production and buy oil from them.

• Utilize electric vehicles as they become viable, not promote EVs with tax credits to make them appear viable.

• Let private industry build and install charging stations, not use tax dollars, and place stations in low-income areas where there are few electric cars.

• Increase natural gas production and encourage converting trucks and buses to natural gas, not reduce natural gas production.

• Encourage finding technical and innovative solutions to problems, not throw money at every problem causing inflation, increasing debt and taxes.

• Don’t lie and say legislation will not negatively impact low- and middle-income families, and only the “rich” will pay for it.

Do we really want any more Biden plans?

Tom Cerra

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