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Protect Republican platform

Editor’s note: The following letter was received too late for the May 6 edition.

Dear Editor:

It’s been a week of bad news. Our Republican Congress voted for a replacement to Obamacare rather than a repeal. Even our own Congressman Mo Brooks voted for the replacement.

Obamacare was failing, this replacement is bound to fail, and now the blame is shifted to Republicans. Should it fail, it will lead to something even more invasive and socialist in the end.

European-style health care is what the liberal progressives really have in sight. Why, would elected Republicans play right into the liberal’s hands?

Liberals say the free market was not working in health care, but there has not been a free market in health care for years. Let health care and insurance cross state lines.

Why do prescriptions cost less if you buy them from Canada and have them shipped here? Government meddling since the 30s. We need a repeal of even more than Obamacare.

Now, I come to find out our Republican House Speaker Mac McCutcheon is bringing the Alabama gas tax increase back up for a vote after it was dead with lack of interest just a few weeks ago. Why was there a lack of interest? It is because state government has not been responsible with our current taxes.

To add insult to injury, the House has the time to bring tax increases up for a vote, but apparently they are trying to kill and stall HB414 (constitutional carry bill) in committee. Speaker Mac McCutcheon and chairman of the Public Safety Committee, Allen Treadaway, both Republicans, have control to either let it die or bring it to a vote of the committee.

So what to do — call or write both of our U.S. senators and ask them not to vote for the health care replacement, but rather a full repeal. Call Mac McCutcheon and politely ask him to get the state budget in order before he asks for more taxes. Also, ask him, and state Rep. Allen Treadaway, to let HB414 out of committee and up for a floor vote. It is an embarrassment that we are 13 states behind on gun freedom.

The Republican platform is for lower taxes, freedom including gun rights, and free market in health care. Now is the time to call or write your senators and congressman and remind them why we voted Republican and for them.

Sincerely,

Zach Wahl

Athens