LETTERS: Reid shouldn’t take credit for Tesla
To the editor:
Well, you had to figure it was coming. Sen. Harry Reid took credit for Tesla Motors’ decision to build its giant battery plant in Nevada. Sen. Reid cited the creation of a corporate-friendly environment through Democratic Party policies.
News flash Sen. Reid: The Democratic Party’s agenda — of America-destroying taxes and regulating corporations to the point where they have to cut jobs, file bankruptcy or simply pack up and leave — had nothing to do with this windfall for Nevada. This happened despite your economy-killing agenda, not because of it.
FRANK W. THOMPSON
HENDERSON
Funding soccer stadium
To the editor:
I am totally against Las Vegas residents being asked to subsidize any proposed arena or stadium (“Las Vegas officials try to drum up support for soccer stadium proposal,” Sept. 17 Review-Journal). And, I might add, we do not need this stadium.
My suggestion would be to tax only the fans who attend the games, and no one else. No taxing the unaware tourists on their hotel rooms. How much can we soak them?
Mayor Carolyn Goodman and her husband, former Mayor Oscar Goodman, Councilmen Steve Ross and Ricki Barlow, and city economic official Bill Arent should loosen their purse strings and back the proposed stadium with their own money. And that goes for Justin Findlay of Findlay Sports and Entertainment, too. Then the taxpayers wouldn’t get hit with $8 million in debt payments should either the proposed Major League Soccer team or the league itself fail.
I see no reason to tax someone who has no interest in the sport or a new stadium. I also do not agree with Mayor Goodman’s quote, “This is about tourist dollars.” Again, how much can we take from the tourists before we turn into another Atlantic City? I have been a performer and tour guide while living here, and I love the tourists.
SAL ANGELICA
LAS VEGAS
Stadium questions
To the editor:
After reading numerous articles about the proposed soccer stadium, I still find questions not being answered. Such as: Will the field be in use year-round? When it is hot outside, how will teams stay cool? Will they then want a cover on top of the stadium, and air conditioning? Will other local teams (high schools, etc.) be allowed to use the field, or are they banned?
Who pays for maintenance? Or is this going to be another tax applied to the public? Also, why downtown? It is hard enough to get in and out, and to find parking. Now we want to add a stadium down there? It’s bad enough that the VA hospital was placed on the northern outskirts of the valley.
Nothing seems to be convenient to the people who live in the Henderson and Boulder City area. Maybe before we approve this little adventure, we should put more thought into it.
BARBARA GOODWIN
HENDERSON
Joy for Jane Ann
To the editor:
What a great surprise and pleasure to once more read columns from the entertaining Jane Ann Morrison. She has been much missed, I am sure. It was great news to read that Ms. Morrison will once again have her own column. After her too-long absence, this is a very welcome decision by the Review-Journal.
Thank you, Ms. Morrison, and thanks to the Review-Journal for again sharing this woman’s writing, perception, wit and probing of issues that affect so many of us. Now my Review-Journal is made whole again.
GEOFFREY MARSH
LAS VEGAS
Background checks
To the editor:
Letter writer Ramon Oviedo thinks that people intending to do evil will be stopped by a gun background check (“Background checks,” Sept. 17 Review-Journal). However, most guns used in criminal activities are stolen. The main thing that the proposed background checks will do is cause expense and inconvenience to lawful gun owners.
When I want to take a relative or friend to a shooting range, I will need to perform a background check on them in order for them to use my firearm. Same goes for my grandkids. If I want to gift a firearm to my son or daughter, there will be more expense and red tape.
Consider the extra work generated for the police department to comply with these requests and the cost to all taxpayers to take cops off the street to perform these tasks.
Wake up. Criminals are not deterred by such laws.
ROBERT RAIDER
HENDERSON
