To the editor: It’s time for California’s elected leaders to have a severe dialogue about how Californians can withhold our federal tax {dollars}. (“How California schools, colleges are responding to Trump’s DEI crackdown,” Feb. 25)
Sufficient is sufficient. When Democrats had been in workplace, they didn’t reduce off cash to Florida and different pink states that banned sure books in colleges or banned abortion. How dare the Trump administration threaten to chop funds to our public colleges as a result of we acknowledge that curriculum and insurance policies that acknowledge and educate in regards to the numerous communities in our state are necessary?
Once we went to varsity within the late Seventies and ‘80s, there have been hard-fought struggles to create girls’s research, African American research and different packages recognizing that the historical past of the world is not only about white males.
Particular person California taxpayers ship greater than $230 billion to the federal authorities, about 15% of the nationwide complete. We pay for the providers offered to much less rich pink states that might be comfortable to have us punished for our values. Sufficient is sufficient.
Leslie Simon and Marc Bender, Woodland Hills
