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Opinion : Letter to the Editor: One Big Beautiful Bill

By Vinton Today · July 4, 2025, 1:02 pm

Dear Editor,

No Democrat voted for the latest bill before Congress. Why? We need an explanation from Democrats on this forum.

Try to refrain from talking points and fake news! Why was this bill so deployable? Certain items that need to be fixed will be. What say you? Stay away from Jefferies' rant, which meant nothing. Let's read your thoughts if you dare.Regards,John Stiegelmeyer

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DL July 7, 2025, 3:23 pm How can you be so happy about taking healthcare away from 40 million people, and taking food away from 2 million children? The tax cuts for tips, overtime and Social Security, ARE NOT what your cult leader announced they are, on the day he signed the bill. All three of those expire in 2028. The tax breaks for the filthy rich, are "permanent". This bill is the largest transfer of wealth, from to poor to the wealthy, in our country's history. The bill also adds $15 Trillion to our debt, over 10 years.

MA July 7, 2025, 3:23 pm With all due respect - Here's an idea: Do your own research. Stop basing your opinions on your own narrow view, and stop blindly rejecting the input of others because it differs from your own beliefs. You take Fox News / OAN / Tucker Carlson / Newsmax reporting as gospel, but yet trash all of the other mainstream reporting when it doesn't meet your anchoring and confirmation biases.

If you can't see the issues in the recently passed legislation (that most likely affects others more than you), that is a problem.

RB July 7, 2025, 3:28 pm The main reason is because it will add over 3 trillion to the debt. The majority of the tax cuts go to the top 1% and not you and me John. There are cuts to Medicaid which will throw over 100,000 Iowans off of insurance.

A good question is what will happen to the person in a nursing home with out family when the cuts go into effect. Since Medicaid isn't available who pays? What is done with that person? Let them die?

You're like many Republicans and are numb to things that might not affect you. Medicare is next and I'm assuming that will come around to you! I'd like Republicans to explain why it should have been voted for? Explain the truth and not the Fox News slant!

KH July 7, 2025, 4:13 pm I'm not a Democrat, nor am I in Congress. Were I, however, I would have voted no with extreme prejudice based on ICE funding alone. We need universal healthcare in this country, not the Gestapo.

MK July 7, 2025, 9:30 pm Why is it a dare to respond? The word choice sure doesn't inspire open discourse. So what is to be gained?

GB July 7, 2025, 10:22 pm Democrats always fall back on scare tactics when they can't win on facts.
DL, President Trump is your leader too! Like it or not, he is. He has an agenda and that is to take care of working Americans. The insane and radical policies of the Biden Administration helped elect Trump. Most Americans were sick of the stupid idiotic policies of the radical left shoving their nonsense down everyone's throat. Trump is doing everything he was voted into office to do. It amazes me that the left has the nerve to even criticize a new direction of putting America first after the disastrous previous four years. Now we can't even say Biden was calling the shots! He was likely at an adult day care somewhere eating ice-cream.
Yet we had the biggest fiasco with the botched pull out in Afganistan. When I was in the Army, we referred to a mess like that as a "Goat-Screw" and heads should have rolled for that mess. Yet no one was held accountable. We actually left Americans behind! That is on top of the 7 billions of dollars in the best military equipment money can buy! Again, no one was held accountable! Then look at the Goat-Screw on the Southern border. Who in the hell in their right mind allows that to happen. I can tell you the only President that should have been impeached was Joe AND Jill Biden! I'd even take it further and put them on trial for treason!
Yet I do not recall DL, RS or any other Democrat here calling Biden’s term an embarrassment or the abortion that it was. Yet you have the nerve to criticize President Trump? I absolutely love what he is doing, especially shutting down the border, throwing the illegals out and his support for the military.
I’m also for work requirements for people who can work who are collecting a free check and cutting off Social Security to people who have never contributed an honest day's work to get it. The Democrats love having people dependant on the Government. They would love to turn this country into a society of freeloaders. I do not mind helping people who are disabled and can't work or even helping a single parent who works but struggles to make end meet. I just sick of the “Do Nothing Democrats” giving away my tax dollars to stupid agendas and people who have never worked an honest day in their life! The Democratic Party is more screwed up than a soup sandwich!

jt July 8, 2025, 11:19 am One Big Bill, period. Beautiful? Beauty is in the "eye of the beholder". Who is benefiting from this bill? Not the current Medicaid recipients that will have to go through more red tape to get their coverage. Not the immigrants/refugees who are currently waiting more than 7 years while reporting to court ordered appointments and now risk getting arrested by ICE agents. Not the newborns in this country whose parents are working and waiting for their immigration status to be determined. Not the women that rely on their reproductive health care through Planned Parenthood services. Not the future generations that will be dealing with more trillions of debt added to our deficit. Where are the conservative Republicans that always complain about adding to our country's debt? They simply caved to big donors and special interest for their particular states. The top 1% of wealthy/corporations will continue to get their tax cuts, expand their profits, grow the divide between "have and have nots". The dollars I will get from the tax cuts does not even come close to the millions in tax breaks for the wealthy. The size of the Bill should have been a red flag from the start for all of Congress. Typical Trump agenda, make a decision, and try for a plan later. Mitch McConnell quote "they'll get over it" kind of sums up the philosophy of those that voted for this bill. Remember it passed in the Senate by one vote needed for a tie breaker from the vice president. Important to get it done by July 4th, so Congress can go on their summer break. This is not a bill for all of America to be proud of!

GG July 8, 2025, 1:25 pm Not one single person is born with "the right" to healthcare. Biannual verification one's status to receive free healthcare, etc. is a burden to recipients?
They should be thankful for what they receive from the ones paying the bills. Not legal? Again, not entitled. Work or volunteer if able, 20 hrs. a week? Yep. Drug testing? Yep.

DL July 8, 2025, 2:48 pm GB, He is the "president" of the United States. He is YOUR cult leader!

The rest of your comment was just a bunch of chewed up rhetoric that has no real meaning. So I'm not going to justify it with a comment.

GB July 8, 2025, 5:52 pm Jt and DL.. everything you said about illegals is exactly the point! They have no rights to be here. All of the people trying to come here legally have been waiting in line patiently and some of them for years, just to watch 20 million illegals cut infront of them illegally! There was no vetting them. While Biden was requiring Americans to take the Covid shot, to quarantine following the "rules" the same rules did not apply to the illegals! Biden let in criminals, foreign operatives and God knows what else. Biden made the Cartels rich smuggling illegals into this country. Then let's talk about the estimated 250,000 plus children who just disappeared after they were just handed over to anyone (again no vetting) who would take them. Anyone who doesn't see this as a problem is part of the problem. PERIOD!
ALSO, saving Medicare and Medicaid is exactly what Trump is doing after the Democrats thought it was a great idea to give it to the millions of illegals! Not the most intelligent decision by Democrats. Again, just another jacked up idea by the Democrats, Period!
DL, once again you are wrong on your point. I know, surprise! Actually I'm not surprised. Most Democrats with these stupid ideas have never actually managed anything credible. They run their mouth but not their brain. DL, you ignore the total incompetence by Biden and his pack of clowns who actually created all of these problems and then criticize others who try to fix the problems. Again, not exactly display of intelligence. Actually it again, shows you are part of the problem when you selectively choose the fix as the problem and struggle with identifying the actual problem. Trump is your President. He is President of The United States. He is fixing the mess that our last President screwed up! Deal with it!

KH July 9, 2025, 9:09 am You're right GG. As Jesus said in Matthew 10:8: "Screw the sick... let those who have leprosy rot, and do nothing of demons. No one is entitled to healthcare, so pay up."

DL July 9, 2025, 2:34 pm GB, You have, obviously, not read the bill. Firstly, THERE ARE NO UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE GETTING ANY SORT OF PROGRAM AID FROM OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! Get that through your skull! It's impossible for that to happen. Read the bill! I did. If I'm incompetent, like you claim, then I know you can read it. Show some interest in what's actually happening in our country.

GB July 9, 2025, 9:43 pm DL, there you go popping off again with nonsense. One big point in the bill was to shut down Illegals from receiving government assistance in many forms to include ending blue states from giving them access to Medicare and Medicade. READ THE BILL DL. BTW, the bill is over 900 pages long! There's no way you read the bill. Your attention span and ability to comprehend what you are reading does not afford you that ability. After all, I have read in commentary many times how you interpret the Constitution and case law. It must be miserable to go through life with the challenges some face in this life. It makes it difficult to have a conversation with people who are so wrong as much as they are.

Trump, is doing everything he promised and was elected to do. The vast majority of the legal voters in this country want every single illegal out of this country. Again, the entire corrupt Biden Crime Family should be on trial for treason. I'm past just wanting the illegals deported, I'm ready to start deporting every clown who brought them here. It's treason, period!

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