Letters: April 19, 2018

Slipped away

When I read Richard Stanton’s rather hate-filled letter to the editor last week, I found myself agreeing with one of his points. Adultery is an egregious and deplorable behavior. But I seem to recall just in my lifetime a lot of politicians that have been alleged to have engaged in that conduct. Let me see … JFK, RFK, LBJ, Bush 41, Bill Clinton, Bush 43, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy ... and the list goes on ad-nauseam.

Maybe it would be easier to make a list of politicians who have not had allegations of infidelity thrown at them. I think this may be one of the reasons most of our elections have devolved into a vote for the lesser of two evils. But it is not just politicians, our whole society has slipped away from our moral foundations.

Rather than pray for the demise of our political enemies, maybe we should pray for a turning of all our hearts to the ancient wisdom literature of the ten commandments. Just think, if we all dedicated ourselves to living by that philosophy, we would have a wonderful worldwide brotherhood where we wouldn’t need governments or politicians!

Travis Brock,

Colfax

Wrong people

In Frank Watson's most recent column, he lists a few peculiarities of the tax code and states why he disagrees. He writes "I wish the IRS were consistent..." and "the IRS decided..." and "the IRS encourages..."

I just want to remind Col. Watson and my fellow readers that Congress writes the tax code, not the IRS. And that is the American experiment. All power is in the citizenry; we are the Representatives and Senators. Everything comes from below; nothing comes from above. We have no monarch or tyrant. Col. Watson is placing responsibility on the wrong people.

Roger Crawford,

Pullman