The Supreme Court saw through Joe Biden’s student loan vote grab | Opinion
Student loans
The U.S. Supreme Court got it right. The student loan bailout was nothing but a vote grab by Democrats and the Biden administration. A conservative court saw it for exactly what it was — political. When students took out these loans there was no expectation that anyone was going to pay that debt but them. If there was false hope given, blame those responsible for this ludicrous idea.
David Ramsey, Mooresville
College tuition
We hear lot of criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court not allowing our tax money to reduce student’s debt. The real problem is that many colleges are charging way too much tuition even though they have hundreds of millions, if not more, in endowments. Tuition has been rising more than inflation and schools need to be called out for it. Students really need to look into trade schools or community colleges first.
Dick Meyers, Charlotte
UNC ruling
Regarding “UNC ruling backtracks on racial equality,” (July 2 Editorial):
We are all missing the big picture. We should be treating the cause, not the symptoms. I believe the lower income population is not getting the educational foundation that more affluent children are receiving. There needs to be a level playing field. For low income students, there is a need for school choice and making funds available to them for charter or private schools. That gives them a much better opportunity to compete for the top universities. Children of all colors are our future and their needs should be our main concern without school politics being involved.
Mike Van Glish, Charlotte
Buy back guns
If cities and states do not collect the guns proliferating everywhere, then there will be more massacres like the one July 4 weekend in Baltimore. There will be more arrests, and, worst of all, more families will be torn apart and destroyed by the utter senselessness and despair that come from this insanity. President Biden must propose this as a national buy-back program once and for all — or the deaths, horror and insanity won’t stop.
Jon Schuller, Charlotte
No to Biden
During the Trump era, progressives frequently cried out that the U.S. was becoming a banana republic. These protectors of the rule of law and civility should now divert their gaze to President Biden, who wants to rule without interference from Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court. For example, just after the court ruled that Biden’s student loan cancellation scheme was unconstitutional he quickly announced that he will attempt to cancel student debt by other means. To move back to the rule of law in 2024 and a U.S. president who reveres the Constitution, we must leave Joe Biden behind.
Keith Brittain, Pineville
Follow the money
The writer is a Citizens Climate Lobby volunteer.
Regarding “Insurers pull back as US climate catastrophes intensify,” (June 27):
People like to say “follow the money” — where it’s going and where it’s leaving. Because of increasingly unpredictable risks of wildfires, floods, etc., dozens of insurance companies have stopped writing policies in some of our most beautiful areas. Why? Climate-driven risk factors. The good news: You might get a great deal on a home in coastal Florida or the still-unburnt forests of northern California. The bad news: Nobody will insure it. July 3-5 were the hottest days in recorded history, with hotter predictions for summer. Is our climate truly in crisis? Follow the money.
Mark C. Taylor, Charlotte
The nonreligious
Regarding “Americans’ dismissal of religion doesn’t bode well for the republic,” (July 2 Opinion):
The Heritage Foundation’s Gillian Richards seems to conflate virtue, religion and belonging to a house of worship. Established religion has sheltered some of the most egregious morality man has ever seen. Jesus himself railed against the sins of religious leaders of his time. Richards’ canonization of America’s Founding Fathers is equally unfounded. They were mainly slave holders who gave full citizenship rights only to white, male landowners. Their own behavior was often abhorrent. Thomas Jefferson enslaved his wife’s half-sister, had a sexual relationship with her that began when she was 14 or 15, and broke his vow to have their children freed upon his death. Maybe examples like this explain why a growing number of Americans have “joined the ranks of the nonreligious.”
Kathleen Rackley, Charlotte
That flag feeling
Issac Bailey’s July 4 column about the American flag pointed to the absence and consequences of not celebrating “that feeling” you get about the flag. The 75,000 fans at Charlotte FC’s home opener in 2022 knew what “it” was. When the microphone went dead during The Star-Spangled Banner the fans jumped in and not one person asked another “why are you singing?’ We knew “why,” and any confusion about what that flag meant dissolved in a chilling few minutes of feeling together, oblivious of dissent.
Dan Busch, Charlotte
