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California is broke but let’s build bullet train
Editor, Manteca Bulletin,
High speed rail will reduce commute costs
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This letter is in response to one sent by Al Barth on Aug. 2 headlined, "What happens when government runs trains". So, you want to keep Amtrak and charge the actual costs of these things? I won't buy a $16.50 cheeseburger nor will I buy a $3.40 Pepsi. How about you? You want to know what it actually costs to provide Amtrak? If each traveler paid full price for ...
A taxing debate about income taxes
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Judging from the letter which appeared in the Your Views section on Aug 8 ("More Worried about how Obama spends taxes"), it seems some people are more than a bit confused about the call for Willard Romney to release his tax returns and even less informed about who wants to tax who. Aside from the confusion the writer shows, suggesting we should not focus on the upcoming ...
Congress won’t be rewiring US tax code anytime soon
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The U.S. tax code is extremely long and complex, with a great many loopholes and credits. People with only passive income (Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Mitt Romney) pay very little, if any, taxes, because that's the way the tax code is written. If a person works hard, invests well, spends wisely, and is legally able to avoid taxes - good for them! Similarly, many with lower ...
Brown’s peripheral tunnels will destroy Delta
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This is an open letter to Gov. Jerry Brown: I am a member of a large five- eneration family living in Northern California; all of us live in the Bay Area or further north. The Delta has been under attack in one way or another for most or all of our lives. First, we were to send our water via canal to Southern California; not satisfied, ...
Impressed with kindness of strangers in Manteca
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, On Monday morning, Aug. 6, my husband and I were riding our recumbent bicycles, turning the corner at K-Mart and Northgate, when I fell off my bike. Three men stopped and helped us, without us even flagging anybody down! One man got out of his car and helped my husband get me up on my feet, one pulled to the side of the road, waiting to see if there was something he ...
Swing for Youth appreciates community support
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The Friends of Manteca Parks & Recreation Foundation just recently conducted the "Jim Brown Swing for Youth" Benefit Golf Tournament. Proceeds from this event help the Manteca Parks & Recreation Department in supporting youth and teen program scholarships. A successful tournament requires strong community support. This support comes in the form of player participants, major sponsors, course sponsors, donors and volunteers. This year we had an excellent blend of community support and ...
Crop Out Cancer event raised $500 to find a cure
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, We wanted to send out a big thank you to the attendees and sponsors of our 4th annual Crop Out Cancer. We raised over $500 and shared some amazing moments together! Almond Blossom Estates-Hall, Tuff Boy Company-Money donation to buy food, Devinci's gave us a discount on the food, Carol Bergmann-Cake, Doctors Hospital of Manteca-items for goody bag & Kim Bettencourt & KrissyVickerman/Creative Memories & Cary Farruggia/ ...
More worried about how Obama spends taxes
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Here it is August already. Christmas is just around the corner and in a few weeks we will start to see local stores putting up tinsel and stuff. November will be a big month with the biggest Presidential vote in our history. But, aside from all the turkey, mashed potatoes and the joys of the holidays there is one thing none of us can escape from in our ...
We tax gold medal winners but not metal tweaker thieves
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I learned just recently that our winning Olympic athletes have to pay taxes on their gold, silver, and bronze medals. Does that strike anyone else as insane? In our own community, tweakers, and the metal recyclers that profit from their drug-crazed activities, are pocketing substantial returns and paying no taxes on our communally owned man-hole covers, copper wiring, and bronze historical markers, as well as statues, grave site brass flower holders, and ...
What happens when government runs trains
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, In a Washington Examiner article dated Aug. 2, 2012, by commentary writer Joel Gehrke headlined "Amtrak lost $800M on cheeseburgers and soda," he writes, "Taxpayers lost $833 million over the last decade on the food and beverages supplied by Amtrak, which managed to spend $1.70 for every dollar that was received in revenue". "Over the last ten years, these losses have amounted to a staggering $833.8 million," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., ...
Gardner family appreciates community support
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, When my wife Cherie and I moved here in 1998 we did so because we wanted our children to grow up in a wholesome environment away from the lifestyle of the Bay Area. We had heard that Lathrop/Manteca was a family community and we wanted to become a part of it. We never fully realized how good a community it is until the death of our oldest son, Christopher Berlin ...
Says Romney plan would increase senior health care costs
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Forty seven years ago, on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed MediCare into law. Even before that law made it to his desk, Republicans tried to tear it down, screaming of communism, socialized medicine, and government takeover, just as they have done with the Affordable Care Act. Governor Mitt Romney endorses Congressman Paul Ryan's budget plan which will repeal the Affordable Care Act, known to some ...
Indelicato family appreciates acts of kindness sent their way
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, We would like to thank the many people who helped my family during this difficult week with my husband, Frank Indelicato's passing. So many acts of kindness were sent our way that we would like all to know that we couldn't have done what we did without them. Among them are Vern and Sharon Gebhardt, Manuel and Alice Umblin and grandson Joseph, Dino and Sharon Cunial, Don and Nancy Laurenti, Stephen ...
Special benefit is the issue with LMDs
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Special benefit is the issue with landscape maintenance districts (LMD). Your column on July 25 ignored the real issue - one I have repeatedly challenged. Your second to the last paragraph says, "There are other issues such as special benefit and such. But it is clear that the vote forming the LMD and the fees per se are not in violation of Proposition 218." I agree that the ...
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