Readers react to Donald Trump, the KC earnings tax and the University of Missouri

President Trump?

I am watching Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s victory speech after the Mississippi and Michigan primaries and now I am worried — not about Trump but about the people who support him. He said absolutely nothing about the problems facing this country and what he plans to do about them.

All he addresses is how great he is, how rich he is and how stupid his opponents are. Wake up, Trump supporters.

We need someone with a deep intellect who can guide this country through the problems facing us and the world. And how we handle ourselves has a huge effect on the globe.

Please don’t make us a laughingstock of everyone with a brain on this planet.

Corva Murphy

Kansas City

KC earnings tax

Who wouldn’t vote for someone else to pay their taxes? That is exactly what the Kansas City earnings tax is about.

For many years, I paid this tax, and I remember when the Kansas City Council promised it would never raise it above a half-percent, but it did.

One of the principles of our Founding Fathers was “no taxation without representation.” Now I am glad I live in Johnson County and don’t have to pay a tax I cannot vote on.

How did Kansas City get by without the earnings tax? How well is it spent? I’m tired of hearing about cuts in police and fire departments when that probably won’t happen.

I have an idea. I propose we pass a non-resident tax levy in Johnson County for all the out-of-county people who work in Johnson County but don’t live there. Don’t they use our amenities? If this is OK for Kansas City, why not for Johnson County?

Another revolutionary idea is to give Kansas City workers not living in Kansas City the right to also vote on the tax. We did have a bistate tax for Union Station, and that worked.

Ron Kogan

Overland Park

Sheriff, prosecutor

Shazam! Maybe the Jackson County prosecutor and the Jackson County sheriff should apply at the University of Missouri-Columbia, so they can attempt to straighten things out. Or maybe not because they do such a great job here.

Dale Epperson

Lee’s Summit

November blues

After 50 years as a registered Republican, I’ve never felt so embarrassed and shamed by the behavior of any American political candidates. The last debates have been hardly more than adult food fights and shouting matches by the leading candidates.

It’s hardly the behavior you’d expect of people trying to become the leader of our great country. Of the remaining candidates, only one seems to answer questions with any degree of real thought about the problems our country faces, and that is John Kasich.

If either of the so-called front-runners is ultimately elected, I wonder who is going to be the adult who will represent the government.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump will insult and/or scare our allies. Trump’s main competition, Sen. Ted Cruz, seems to be a narrow-issue candidate who is truth-challenged.

I’m concerned these people will drive the general election to the Democrats.

Ted Horning

Shawnee

High court pick

Hyper-partisanship and gridlock between the executive and legislative branches is a virus that is now engulfing the third branch of government, our Supreme Court.

Reason, compromise, rule of law and love of country have been replaced by refusal to govern. No wonder we the people are angry.

President Barack Obama understood that a liberal nominee to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month, would not be confirmed.

Obama nominated a centrist, Merrick Garland, to fill the vacancy instead. A centrist would be a win-win for everyone.

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to refuse to hold hearings on a moderate such as Garland, he risks not only having a Democrat elected president in the fall (highly likely) but also a newly elected Democratic Senate majority that would then be free to seat a liberal justice on the court. In my opinion, a moderate justice replacing Justice Scalia as soon as possible would help the frayed credibility of our Supreme Court.

Senators, do your job. Follow our Constitution.

Bernadine Kline

Liberty

Trump’s campaign

Ron Marr’s March 26 Midwest Voices column, “Comparing Trump to Hitler is way off,” has me shaking my head in disappointment. Far from squelching critics of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Mr. Marr has only exposed his own inability to logically reason.

He goes for the easy, cheap but misleading shots — Trump has not murdered 6 million Jews so he cannot be an Adolf Hitler — rather than comparing Hitler at the beginning of Hitler’s political career to Mr. Trump at this moment when he is beginning his.

There are plenty of examples of strong-men who used intimidation, incitement to violence, insults and authoritarian appeal to win democratic elections, only to abolish the democracy that allowed them to come to power once they were in. An analysis of these persons in comparison to Mr. Trump would have been useful and part of the mildly intelligent discourse Mr. Marr claims he supports.

Sadly, Mr. Marr’s bombastic slinging of words like “puerile” and “nonsensical” and “derivative” are no more constructive than his conclusion that his neighbors may vote for Trump merely because he has been likened to Hitler. If Mr. Marr truly is correct about that, I can only hope that other, more sensible voters will outnumber those who cast their votes so thoughtlessly.

William Bradley

Overland Park

Arrowhead

Chiefs, say it ain’t so (3-25, B7, “Team still open to selling naming rights to its field”). The Chiefs might be playing on Joe Schmo Field. How tacky. There is only one name you should even consider.

Lamar Hunt Field.

Dick Saale