Georgia’s 2020 fake electors should be prosecuted
How helpful that Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia Executive Director Pete Skandalakis gets to select from a menu of reasons not to continue the prosecution of Georgia’s fake electors — too expensive, too time-consuming, too complex, too “politically charged,” too difficult to pursue a sitting president.
But missing from this list is the irrefutable fact that these people were trying to steal my vote and every vote cast in the 2020 election. The fake electors met and signed papers they actually sent to the National Archives after the secretary of state had certified the election, after Lt. Gov. Burt Jones himself had scored a record number of votes, and after Rudy Giuliani had produced accusations but no evidence of fraud.
Georgia managed to hold a successful election during an unprecedented pandemic. The people who tried to undermine that election because they didn’t like the results should be held accountable. Their claim that they were only following the advice of counsel sounds a lot like the defense of only following orders. They should have to stand in a court of law and explain why they tried to rob Georgia voters. They should have to accept the consequences of their actions.
Prosecuting the fake electors should serve as a warning to anyone who wants to illegally change an election result in Georgia.
JERELYN JORDAN, ATLANTA
Eliminating sales tax will hurt low income
In the debates and discussions about eliminating the state sales tax, I have heard no mention of the fact that it will adversely affect poor people and seniors on fixed income.
Eliminating the income tax will require increases in sales, ad valorem and property taxes.
A progressive income tax is the real fair tax.
CHARLIE KEY, MABLETON
Congress stands unified against pedophilia
Name one other time in the past 50 years when Congress has spoken with one voice as it did with the recent vote to compel the release of the Epstein files?
Regardless of how Americans may feel about other things, we finally showed the world that even Congress is not OK with pedophilia. Good job, Congress. We can only get better from here.
DANIEL F. KIRK, KENNESAW
Misleading claims about housing shortages must be corrected
Although the construction industry blames housing shortages on overregulation, that assertion is politically calculated and dangerously misleading. Housing shortages and unaffordable costs of new homes — beyond the reach of many Georgians — are mostly caused by other factors. Based on deceptive claims, the General Assembly will be considering House Bill 812, which would impose foolhardy scheduling restrictions on local development-permit review while also empowering the state to override any local regulations that are more rigorous than the state’s scant minimum standards.
Yet, financing and erratic market conditions have had a much worse impact on housing availability than regulations. Underbuilding began with the 2008 financial crisis, making homebuilders more risk-averse about investing in new projects, cumulatively causing a national housing shortfall in the millions. Moreover, the material costs of building have been driven higher by inflation and made even worse recently by tariffs.
Likewise, a skilled-worker shortage has driven up labor costs. When the housing industry plummeted in 2008 due to reckless financial risks taken by Wall Street, people who had worked in construction moved into other employment sectors.
If HB812 is adopted, communities will needlessly lose control over local development preferences at the risk of endangering their environment and quality of life.
DAVID KYLER, SAINT SIMONS ISLAND CENTER FOR A SUSTAINABLE COAST
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