Re: “GOP milestone: House gives final approval in tight vote to Trump’s big tax bill<\/a>,” July 4 news story<\/p>\n While Republicans claim that their “The One Big Beautiful Bill<\/a>” will strengthen Medicaid by eliminating the usual waste, fraud, and abuse, it is more telling that their changes to Medicaid will not go into effect until after the 2026 midterm elections. If there’s waste, fraud, and abuse, why wait two years to deal with it? The reason is that they won’t have to fear the political repercussions of the pain and suffering from all those benefits they promised. Voters need to see through this.<\/p>\n Dan Danbom, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Trump tax bill: Hurd voted party line; so did the rest of state delegation<\/a>,” July 4 news story<\/p>\n Rep. Gabe Evans’ commercial states that his vote is for Colorado families. Evans is giving them crumbs, however. He voted to give the rich loaves.<\/p>\n James Maki, Dacono<\/em><\/p>\n Re:\u00a0 ” ‘Big beautiful bill’ is ugly for state residents’ health<\/a>,” July 4 commentary,\u00a0 and “Small colleges depend on their endowments; the tax should not be raised<\/a>,” July 2 commentary.<\/p>\n America is over $37 trillion in debt, which is considerably greater than our $27 trillion GDP. The only way to resolve this financial crisis is for America to export more than it imports. This can only happen if America reindustrializes and is able to create novel technologies that will be marketable. This will also help solve some of the myriad crises facing the world (e.g., climate change vis-\u00e0-vis green energy).<\/p>\n However, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have utterly decimated science and higher education in America by defunding both. Where will the engineers who design and build our factories come from — especially when international students (who largely pursue STEM) are no longer welcome here? How will we fuel innovation when there is sparse funding for scientific research?<\/p>\n Cutting taxes and aiding the wealthy elites of this country will not solve America’s debt crisis as it falls further behind technologically. Only strong support for scientific research and higher education will.<\/p>\n Michael Pravica, Henderson, Nevada<\/em><\/p>\n