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Wealth and taxes

EDITOR: The top 10% of income earners pay 76% of all income taxes. Most billionaire income is unearned and is not taxed or is taxed at a lower rate. Wealth is not taxed. If you could spend $10 million every year, it would take you 100 years to spend a billion dollars. There are several hundred billionaires in the United States. A second billion and a third adds nothing to their quality of life. Much of their wealth is used to influence elected officials and, as in the case of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, members of the Supreme Court. Elon Musk has donated $75 million to ...

Let’s not go back

EDITOR: As a young child during the 1960s, I observed all the effort youth were making at the time to make our country a better place for everyone, civil rights for people of color, expansion of voting rights, equal treatment of our Native Americans, and women’s equality were just a few areas where much of this effort took place. Many changes occurred as a result of these efforts, but the cost was high; assassinations, civil unrest and riots in the streets and the killing of four college students in Ohio by our own National Guard. Let’s not go back. The “Children of the 60s” ...

Political Letters

Letters to the editor pertaining to the November General Election will not be accepted after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 22.

Political signs

EDITOR: Last night a number of yard signs were stolen in our neighborhood. The yard signs were on private property and happened to support the Harris/Walz campaign. I can only assume that the thieves were Trump supporters and were attempting to suppress any visible signs of Harris support. The theft seems to illustrate an intolerance to opposing views and an attempt to silence the opposition. This is exactly why we support the Harris ticket. A democracy encourages open dialogue, mutual respect, and allowing diversity of opinions. Because one may disagree with another politically does ...

Veteran millage

EDITOR: The millage is for the purpose of funding, equipping, staffing, maintaining and operating a County Department of Veterans Affairs to provide relief, support, and assistance services to all qualified veterans, their eligible spouses and families. The proposed millage for 1/10 of 1 percent is for 5 years. If your home has a taxable value of $100,000 the cost to you will be $10 a year. That’s a very small amount to pay for all the veterans have given to us. Delta County has had one VSO officer for years and he is very busy and needs help. The older our veteran population gets, ...

Lead line mess

EDITOR: Well Escanaba, we’re getting new state mandated water pipes pushed into our homes. That’s the good news. Even though it’s reported that we have less lead in our drinking water then ever before, the pipes are being replaced at city’s expense, that’s part of the bad news. The rest of the bad news is how our streets, curbs, avenues, and sidewalks look after the work is done. In order to replace the lines, some curbs and huge chunks of sidewalk are being removed. The avenue next to my home is just a huge pile of sand. The reason it is sand and not topsoil is how the hole ...