Too much conflict, too little management
Are other people like me having difficulty contacting the IRS?
I filed my 2020 federal and Minnesota income tax March asking for refunds. I received the state’s refund within a month or two. But to date no federal refund and it is to be by direct deposit so I have been checking frequently and no such luck.
My problem, and perhaps other people have the same, you can’t make contact by phone with anyone in the IRS to question anything. You always get the same type of message, “no one is available and try another time.” I may have tried that route 50 times and still no success. I have also used the web and entered all the correct information going that way and that way I am not recognized. I’m asking my congresswomen, Angie Craig, to help me with this.
This is not good, and you would think in the IRS phone system they would have something like this. “We can’t take your call at this time but leave your name and number and someone will call you later, da, da, da.”
It is a sad reflection of how Washington works today. Lots of wasted energy in conflict but can’t manage simple things.
Jack Herrick, Burnsville
A key question
I read with interest Cynthia Allen’s opinion piece, “Voting bill isn’t Jim Crow 2.0” (June 8). The writer logically discusses the rationale for the multiple changes in this new voting legislation in Texas. She basically supports most sections of the bill with the exception of the change to the voting time for the “souls for polls.” Her argument is this law is not extreme and the changes in the new law basically return the voting status back to the pre-pandemic voting rules.
Unfortunately, for me she failed to answer a key question: Why is it necessary to return to the pre-pandemic rules when the 2020 election was the most successful election in decades?
The 2020 election had the highest voter turnout in over 60 years and, according to Department of Justice, was absent of any significant fraud. The Texas voting bill, along with multiple other states’ new voting bills, appears to be solutions without a problem. Democracy strives best when voting is accessible for all and not a burdensome process.
Geri Minton, Roseville
Falling birth rate? Great
It is unbelievable that David Fickling and those of his ilk bemoan the fact that the world population is in decline (“China’s new 3-child policy won’t reverse population decline,” June 6).
There could be some rough spots as the economies adapt, but they will. A falling birth rate is the best news that the Earth and all its species have got in a long time. Studies have shown that where you have educated, liberated women who have access to birth control the birth rate drops. The only place left on our planet where this is not the case is in a handful of fundamentalist Islamic countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
Given an opportunity the ladies refuse to be treated like breeding machines. Go figure.
Tom Bates, St. Paul
Irish mystery
The recent letter to the editor, “Idiot circles” (June 10) is chock full of misinformation as revealed by about five minutes of fact checking. Ireland is not “tearing out roundabouts.” Officials in Ireland suddenly announced a program to replace roundabouts with computer controlled electronic signals and declared it is now “national policy.”
The action is a mystery to the citizens of Ireland because there does not seem to be a great outcry against roundabouts. A large growing protest has stopped the replacements after a few were replaced, partially due to high cost.
As to truck accidents, a recent example actually demonstrates the safety advantage of roundabouts. An SUV and a large truck collided on a two-lane roundabout when they apparently decided to cross lanes. Witnesses could not figure out what they intended. Damage was minor with no injuries due to the nature of low speeds and small angles of impact characteristic of roundabout collisions.
Joe Danko, North St. Paul
Negative?
A recent letter writer complained about an Associated Press report about the Rev. James Altman, a La Crosse priest who has been asked by his bishop to resign for, the letter writer said, “voicing his conservative stance on politics and the pandemic.”
He has two points; the second: “The article labels a priest in a Texas case as “anti-abortion.’ I much prefer the term “pro-life.” Why the need to use negative words?”
About that La Crosse priest, the AP article quotes him:
“You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat,” said Altman, admonishing people to “repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.”
Sounds a mite negative to me.
Hal Davis, Minneapolis
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