Harris would continue bad policies

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump were originally Democrats. Both realized the Democratic Party’s domestic and international geoeconomics tend to create a country that hollows out the middle class.

If we continue, we will be a country of the poor and the very rich. The Biden administration put these destructive policies on speed dial.

Millions of undocumented and unaccountable immigrants undermine the wages of the lower middle class, making them poorer. Restrictive energy increases the cost of fertilizers and chemicals, raising food prices and consumer products. The administration’s support for electric vehicles undermines our automotive industry. Only the upper middle class can afford these vehicles. The rich use gas-guzzling limos. Huge trade imbalances with Asia further erode our manufacturing base, resulting in middle-class workers losing jobs and becoming poor. These geopolitical policies make us increasingly a service economy, benefiting bankers, hedge funds and lawyers. Information technology is one of the strongest growth areas of our economy. However, Biden’s Justice Department is trying to break up Google, knowing that Google does not compete against other foreign information technology companies but foreign government-sponsored and financially supported tech companies. The administration supports increasing taxes on the rich to counter the rich getting richer. But the rich have brilliant accountants and merely pass on these taxes to the rest of us with increased prices on the products they sell. Meanwhile, the administration wants to increase the number of Internal Revenue Service employees to ensure that middle-class people are paying their fair share of taxes.

This next presidential election will be a game-changer. I assume that Kamala Harris, given her liberal voting record as U.S. senator, will continue these disastrous geoeconomic policies if elected president.

— Stanford Erickson, Baltimore

Alsobrooks campaign barely visible

Has the Democratic National Committee conceded Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat to Republican Larry Hogan? With the blessings of Donald Trump, the Republicans are pouring money into the Hogan campaign. For proof, see the ubiquitous television ads for Hogan, while Angela Alsobrooks’ campaign is barely visible.

— Jim Dempsey, Edgewood

Will GOP pivot from Trump?

The Democratic Party has moved away from President Joe Biden and is now supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. I think she will make an excellent president.

My concern is the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump. Can the Republican Party finally decide to move away from Trump? The Republican Party of today is not the party of Lincoln or Reagan. Trump’s handling of the pandemic was too little, too late and he has yet to take responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

For the safety of our nation, the GOP needs to move away from the far right and nominate a more moderate individual, such as former GOP Chairman Michael Steele or former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich and leave behind the dangerous Project 2025 proposal.

— Larry Hankin, Towson

Ferries can reduce bridge traffic

I have been reading with interest the stories and opinions surrounding a proposed Chesapeake Bay ferry system. Though I support passenger ferries to service the Eastern Shore, Annapolis and Solomons Island from Baltimore, I agree with Dan Rodricks that it also needs to be a system to alleviate Bay Bridge traffic (Dan Rodricks: Chesapeake ferries should not be seen as novelty, but real transit infrastructure, Aug. 27).

I lived in Seattle for two years and the Washington State Ferries system works efficiently across the Puget Sound.

My son lived on Long Island for 15 years and the ferries from there to Connecticut are very efficient. He now lives in Lewes, Delaware, and the Cape May-Lewes Ferry is a great link.

I have sent comments to the state regarding the Bay Bridge study to add a third span. If a third span is added, it should be double decked like the Verrazano and George Washington bridges in New York. Maryland should also study whether a double deck can be engineered on the two existing Chesapeake Bay Bridges.

I proposed that a car ferry should be considered from Chesapeake Beach to either Oxford or Cambridge. A car ferry, similar to the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, could potentially divert traffic coming from Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, and away from the Bay Bridge area to alleviate future traffic.

I live in northern Anne Arundel County. The Rock Creek passenger steamboats serviced our community from the 1880s through the 1940s before the original span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built in 1952. The Rock Creek line docked in the Inner Harbor at Light Street across from the old McCormick headquarters.

— Robert E. Reyes, Riviera Beach