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Letters to the Editor

Wealth tax

EDITOR: If a wealth tax were imposed on billionaires above and beyond what they already pay, they could choose to take their offending extra wealth to a more welcoming country. That tax-friendly country would be grateful for the extra revenue. Or they could hoard their money in Swiss bank ...

The wealth gap

EDITOR: If you could save one million dollars every year, it would take one thousand years for you to become a billionaire. If wealth greater than one billion dollars were taxed at 100%,billionaires would still have ten million dollars to spend every year for one hundred years. There are more ...

Difference in perspectives

EDITOR: There has been an interesting difference in perspectives in the letters to the editor from Rory Mattson and Nancy Warren Ewen about wolves in the U.P. This seems to boil down to the impact wolves are having on the deer population. The 2019 Upper Peninsula deer population estimates ...

Delta County Forestland

EDITOR: I have kept somewhat of a record asking anyone that I could, stockers, cashiers, managers “have you gone to the new Park in Cornell” “What park? “ is the usual response. I estimation 99 per cent don’t know that their four year old park is 20 minutes away, “The Delta County ...

Not the time to let down our guard

EDITOR: As I read Wednesday’s Daily Press, I noticed once again that the front page of the sports section had pictures of high school basketball players wearing masks below their noses and even under their chins. Why? Where are the coaches, officials, and parents? A mask mandate is useless ...

Be careful out there

EDITOR: The Daily Press recently reported that Delta County leads the Upper Peninsula in the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus. The majority of citizens have conformed to wearing masks now for a year. When shopping for groceries in Escanaba, I find customers without masks in ...