Editorial
by James Buckley
How We’re Voting
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his is the last issue we’ll put out before what could be a watershed (if you’ll excuse the expression) election for not only Montecito but also for the United States of America. So, although we’ve outlined how we’re voting and for whom over the past two issues, it’s important that we reiterate those choices, so here they are:
For President: Donald J. Trump
The next president of the United States of America is either going to be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, so you and we must select one or the other. For us, it’s not a tough choice at all, though it took awhile for us to come around. We listened carefully to Mr. Trump’s one-on-one interviews with various newscasters – some friendly, some not so – as the less-than-high-minded campaign slogged its salacious way across our TV screens, and he came across as a reasonably intelligent and sincere man. We’ve grown to not only like him, but to feel confident he will do or at least try to do many of the things he’s “promised” over the past 16 months since he first declared his candidacy. We like that he intends to try to bring the corporate tax rate down to 15 percent from its among-the-highest-in-the-world 35 percent. It means that he understands that high taxation and over-regulation are strangling small business. We believe he’ll have some success in revising the tax code for individuals. We like the list of proposed nominees he has put forth to fill the late Justice Scalia’s Supreme Court seat. We believe Mr. Trump will make a concerted and successful effort to stem the tide of “refugees” pouring across our borders illegally by air and land and will finally put some teeth into policing our borders. A Trump administration is sure to radically alter the ridiculous 2,700page “Affordable” Care Act, and will probably repeal and replace it if he finds himself with enough of a majority in Congress. Renegotiating the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other one-sided treaties, such as NATO, are also excellent ideas. We do hope he lives up to these promises and assumes a mantle of responsibility and probity that a U.S. president must have. If he fails – as he may – we’ll at least have options. We fear that if the Clintons are brought back to Washington, D.C., we’ll never have another chance to get off the track of a burdensome and intolerant regulatory state her administration would have us on. We also appreciate and admire Mr. Trump’s choice for vice president: Michael Pence, who would make a terrific president should something health-wise fell a 70-year-old-plus President Trump.
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Justin Fareed for Congress
We’re voting for political newcomer Justin Fareed over political insider Salud Carbajal, who, we’ll admit, has been maligned in some of the Republican National Committee ads we’ve seen on television, unfairly. But, as the outgoing Lois Capps may have said when some nasty and untrue ads ran against her then-opponent in a previous election, “Politics ain’t bean ball.” She didn’t actually say that, but she also did not repudiate her supporters’ lies.
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