Letters for August 5 focus on preserving Virginia Beach National Golf Club, which serves tourism as a major industry. The article suggests that giving the course to the Dragas Corporation could lead to a shady, backroom deal. The author points out that U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans' vote against the One Big Beautiful Bill, which cut $863 billion from Medicaid and the Children’s’ Health Care Program, and $186 billion from SNAP, eliminated healthcare subsidies, could result in rural hospital closures. The bill also provided a $2.3 billion tax cut to the wealthy top 10% of Americans and will increase the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years. The writer concludes that while the United States ranks at the bottom among industrialized nations when it comes to healthcare, it should be supported by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The cap on the FICA tax must be raised or eliminated to fund this.