If president used the IRS, he's not the first to do so
President Obama's administration is not the only administration to play politics with the IRS.
If I recall, President Nixon personally directed the IRS to harass his political enemies. Going back even farther, President Kennedy used the Ideological Organizations Audit Project to make a point to his political foes. And President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not too clean himself on the issue either, using the Bureau of Internal Revenue (as the IRS was called back then) for his own political purposes.
Here's how we finally put an end to these issues: No politically-oriented group gets tax-exempt status. Also, if a church crosses the line, its tax-exempt status should be revoked.
- Albert Viola, Porter Ranch
Holder is damned if he did and damned if he didn't
Re "Attorney General Eric Holder faces tough questioning today" (May 15):
There are two possibilities: Attorney General Eric Holder didn't know about illegal activities at the Department of Justice, so he should be fired; or Holder was aware of illegal activities at the DOJ, and he should be fired and prosecuted.
- Steve Beach, Reseda
In school suspension ban, blame political correctness
Re "Gutting of LAUSD's suspension policy threatens teachers and education" (Opinion, May 17):
Political correctness in Washington. Political correctness in Sacramento. Political correctness in the county, in the city, in the schools. It's outrageous that the Los Angeles Unified board voted to allow willful defiance by students to teachers by not allowing suspensions for repeated offences.
The Wall Street Journal graphed the problem children in secondary schools. Critics cite too much leeway in determining what causes willful defiance. That is called PC.
Some say suspension hurts students' chances of success. Another PC statement. The heck with the other students and teachers' time and the quality of school life, right?
- Richard Greenblatt, Los Angeles
Teachers have a big job without doing parents' too
Re "Teachers should be happy to keep their students fed" (Letters, May 17):
How out of touch with reality is this letter writer? What are teachers " Are they feeders of food? No. They are feeders of learning.
Parents need to send their kids to school with the love of learning, and with a good breakfast to support the energy to learn. Our teachers have so many rules, restrictions and benchmarks to meet. When is it the parents' responsibility to support the teachers' role in their chidren's future success?
- Laura Marcos, West Hills
Bigger things are expected from new mayor Garcetti
I hope Eric Garcetti, the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, runs the city better than his predecessor and stays in touch with the taxpayers who pay his salary, unlike our previous mayor. We need the mayor to step up and take care of our city's problems, including illegal immigration and crime.
- Joe Pinoy Lozano, Mission Hills
He's got another way to mark Villaraigosa's tenure
"Terminal hall to be named for mayor" (May 20):
Please tell me which restroom in the great hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal will carry Antonio Villaraigosa's name. I would love to go there and do what he did to us all these years.
- Bill Martin, Chatsworth
Source: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_23311115/if-president-used-irs-hes-not-first-do?source=rss
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