Re: “Highway Trust Fund: GOP’s big tax bill is a win for subcontractors and infrastructure,” July 24 commentary<\/p>\n
While I acknowledge Rusty Plowman’s appreciation of the infrastructure and small business impact of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,”\u00a0 I also observe that it didn’t have to be a single bill. The benefits he outlines are great. In my mind we will have to wait and see, but the much-publicized looming malevolence in the OBBB could more than outweigh its good aspects. It all makes me suspicious that the singularity of the legislation was a sleight of hand to help pass a clunker distasteful to the non-MAGA majority of us.<\/p>\n
Jim Granath, Highlands Ranch<\/em><\/p>\n As a professional engineer who has worked in transportation for nearly 70 years, I appreciate Plowman’s comment supporting the Highway Trust Fund sections in the OBBB that was forced through Congress and signed into law. Many of his comments reflect the failure of the prior Congress to act.<\/p>\n However, the OBBB contains elements that pertain to the budget, enabling it to pass by majority vote, avoiding the Senate filibuster rule. It would not have passed as stand-alone measures. Congress needs to find a backbone and demand separate bills where they can do the difficult work they are elected to do.<\/p>\n Congress is not a parliamentary body run by political parties. Congress is supposed to represent us. George Washington warned about one man. Congress has given up its powers and refused to make hard decisions as representatives of the people, not some ideologue or “party.” The Supreme Court is abusing the emergency docket by making rulings without hearings or the signatures of the justices.<\/p>\n Leonard B. West,\u00a0Centennial<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Denver Restaurant Classics,” June 29 Home on the Range special section<\/p>\n Thank you, John Wenzel, for your fine article on Denver restaurants. We have dined at many of them, and were inspired to try some others by your writing.<\/p>\n Please tell the editor and others who worked on the special Home on the Range section that it is a big hit!<\/p>\n Lynn Cleveland, Centennial<\/em><\/p>\nHome on the Range is a hit<\/h4>\n
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