I’d like to add some additional data to the letter “Speak up to stop Musk’s coup” (Feb. 15, TribLive). Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, worth $442 billion, yet in 2022 and 2024 Tesla paid $0 in federal tax.
It’s obscene that any one man should have that much money. With the closure of USAID, babies will be born with HIV and innocent children will die from malnutrition; USAID accounted for a tiny portion of the federal budget.
Musk is being investigated by a number of the agencies he is closing down or cutting drastically. His “team” is composed of several 19- to 24-year-olds who it appears are randomly firing thousands of dedicated workers for no reason. Their lives are ruined; some are not getting severance, losing health care and are unable to collect unemployment.
Another letter-writer (“Democrats’ rebellion against Trump is selfish,” Feb. 12, TribLive) says Democrats’ have “one-sided concern for themselves.” In my opinion, Republicans vote for the betterment of themselves while Democrats vote for the betterment of everyone.
I am not an immigrant, I am not a minority, I am not LGBTQ, I don’t have a baby that is dying because USAID food was cut off, I was not fired from my job for no reason, but my heart breaks and I cry for each and every person who has been affected by what is happening. Democrats have something called empathy that seems to be lacking under the current administration.
Carole Hillwig
Greensburg