Bert Dirschell
Centertown
Dear Editor:
I agree with the sentiment in a NT quote of Gov. Mike Parson, “Missouri knows best when it comes to taking care of our own, not Washington, D.C. Our health insurance market is not competitive and there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ federal solution that addresses every issue on health care access and the rising cost of insurance premiums for Missourians.” I can only hope that whatever “solutions for Missouri” his task force arrives at will come with recommendations on how Missourians will fund those solutions. My expectation is that the solution to any perceived problems will be to fund the solution with more debt piled on the children of our entire nation, not just Missouri children.
Gov. Parson’s quote also applies to the ridiculous concept of a national minimum wage. Missouri voters have set what they believe to be a reasonable minimum wage. The voters in 29 other states have done likewise. If you want to change the minimum wage in Missouri then convince Missouri voters to do so. We don’t need a bunch of self-serving politicians in D.C. cramming more “one-size-fits-all” rules and regulations down our throats.
In another NT article 20 property owners whose property was damaged by recent flooding want the Corps of Engineers (nationwide taxpayers) to fund a $5 million study on how to protect private property from flood damage. No doubt the result of any such study would be a recommendation that the federal government spend billions to protect their private property, and other privately owned, flood-prone property. If taxpayers are to fund such a study it should be taxpayers in areas that directly benefit from such a study.
There is no justifiable reason for funding state/local health care costs, nor studies on how to better protect private property, by piling more federal debt on the shoulders of my Michigan brothers grandchildren, nor on the shoulders of children residing in any other state.
Self-serving federal politicians will never balance the federal budget as long people continue to act like there is a magic money tree in D.C.