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Editorial | Tax shifting is not tax reform

Appropriately coinciding with the official start of hurricane season Gov. Ron DeSantis has called for a special legislative session to push his “Save Our Homes” plan to slash property taxes. “Today in Tampa, I outlined the Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes plan that will ...

Last chance to save America

To the editor: The No. 1 terrorist country that hates America and other countries as well, wants a nuclear weapon so much that they killed 30,000 of their citizens just because they protested.  Backing off, as so many people want, will let Iran produce that nuclear bomb. Then Iran would no ...

Vote your pocketbook

To the editor: If decreasing unemployment is your goal, why not throw your support behind the Republicans? They absolutely love giving tax cuts and breaks to corporations — because who wouldn’t want businesses to just pack up and move to places with cheap labor? It’s totally fair to ...

Democracy is at the tipping point

To the editor: We have reached a second tipping point with Donald Trump.  The first was when he lost the 2020 election and Republicans could have consigned him to the wilderness.  For a fleeting moment that looked like what they would do; after all, Trump had led an attempted coup, based on ...

The hypocrisy is staggering

To the editor: President Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion because one of their contractors, not a full-time government employee, leaked Trump’s tax records to the New York Times.  The leaker is currently serving a five-year prison sentence, but Trump accuses the IRS of negligence.  Most ...

Fight back against gerrymandering

To the editor: I believe that gerrymandering is wrong. I participated in a major petition project to end gerrymandering in Michigan. The project ran from August 2017-December 2017 and signatures were submitted in 2018. This group effort gathered 425,000 signatures to place a constitutional ...