Heights reader praises Biden for content of State of the Union speech

In the words of comedian Seth Myers, “Grandpa came to play”!

I think the current president showed up for the American worker and inclusion of equal and fair justice for all in representation.

What have been the political arguments against candidate and now President Biden? Biden is corrupt. Biden has dementia. Biden is too old. Biden is extreme left. Biden is creating inflation. Biden is responsible for border failures. Biden is weak on U.S. security. Biden is a loser and a “Sleepy Joe.”

Facts remain above name calling.

The recent Infrastructure Bill will require building products to be made in America. Biden remarked that he will see his Republican colleagues at groundbreaking events in many states and even those who voted against the bill. That will include Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who came to Waco last summer appearing at Waco’s bridge project while having voted against it. He also joined Republicans and voted against capping Medicare prescription drug prices as a part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Biden Administration and Democratic congressional members calculate that a $1.7 trillion deficit cut could result from requiring billion-dollar companies to pay a 15% tax rate. The proposal in Tax Reforms would include quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks, which seems to be common practice for the wealthy. The legislation ushers in the plan of paying your fair share and provides for fully funding IRS to implement investigations of tax fraud while not raising taxes on incomes under $400k.

It is clear to me, from our country’s current leadership, that history will record work accomplished in these past two years will benefit and address the long overdue real needs previously used as political footballs in the air instead of solutions.

Nancy Pfiester

Harker Heights

Editor's note: Murphy McCulloch, press secretary for Texas Sen. John Cornyn, said the event that Ms. Pfiester referenced that Senator Cornyn attended was in May 2021 and the infrastructure bill wasn’t signed into law until November 2021. At that event, Senator Cornyn received a briefing and status update on the I-35 construction, which began in the spring of 2019 and received $240 million in federal funding that pre-dated the infrastructure bill, and highlighted the need for investing in infrastructure – not touting the infrastructure bill as she implies in her letter.