Speak Out 5/1/13

Tax proposal

That should tell you something. The Republican-controlled Missouri House wants to reduce corporate income taxes by 50 percent but individual income taxes by only 2/3 of 1 percent. The lost revenue will be made up by a regressive sales tax, a tax which will hit Missouri's ever-shrinking middle class the hardest and, no doubt, will cause it to shrink even more.

Drunk drivers

Are there any figures on how many children between the ages of 6 to 8 have been killed by drunken drivers in the United States since Jan. 1, 2013?

Limbaugh columns

Like Ronald Reagan, I am a hard-headed optimist. I refuse to fall prey to the gloom and doom pessimism periodically put forth in this paper by the sky is falling scribe, David Limbaugh.

GOP logic

Republicans are trying to say that background checks for guns are useless as criminals will get them anyway. With that logic, let's just do away with all laws; criminals will violate them anyway.