Recently, I received my Social Security award letter for the year 2018. To say I am unhappy would be a gross understatement. Back in the year 2015, I received an increase bringing my monthly check to $954. There was no increase for 2016, but in 2017 people were to get a small increase. However, an […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Hold lawmakers accountable
The GOP tax bill could be called highway robbery. It takes money that could be used to fund badly needed repairs to America’s ailing infrastructure — roads, bridges, airports, rail lines and electrical grids — and gives it to big corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent of the population, plus adding $1.5 trillion to the […]
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An irresponsible Christmas gift
Witness millionaires and billionaires taking care of millionaires and billionaires. Despite congressional bilge litter to the contrary, Republicans have handed the American people the biggest pile of mule droppings since 1776. Moreover, ignoring two-thirds of the nation’s populace, they passed the tax bill on the backs of American families and future generations of children and […]
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The dream crushers
The arrogance of a president and his party has crushed the dreams of millions of Americans who long for a more inclusive government. Crushed are the dreams of those who believe that the purpose of government is to promote the well-being of all its citizens. Devastated are those people who continue to believe that well-being […]
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Trump's attacks on science
In 1795, when considering a new university in his home state of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson pronounced freedom to be “the first-born daughter of science.” Donald Trump is currently attacking freedom by censoring scientists. As the New York Times reported in October, scientists in the Environmental Protection Agency were forbidden to speak about climate change at […]
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Votes benefit the wealthy
Who is helping people with their taxes? Not the Republican legislators. Not U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin nor Sen. Susan Collins, who both said “yes” to the latest Republican tax heist, which gives hefty tax cuts to the wealthy. Not Rep. Russell Black, or Rep. Lance Harvell, or Rep. Tom Skolfield, who all said “no” in […]
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Poor choices by the voters
I wonder … every time President Donald Trump takes a trip on Air Force One he gives the Marine at the door of the plane a snappy salute, and my insides do a flip flop. And I wonder what that Marine is thinking when he has to salute a man who had five deferments so […]
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Tax bill: Reform or deform?
“Reforming” taxes, according to Webster’s Dictionary, would be amending or improving them. It seems to me that the president and the congressional majority are instead “deforming” taxes, which means disfiguring/making hideous or monstrous. According to a recent Gallup poll, only two percent of Americans say that taxes are one of the most important problems facing […]
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Expressing our gratitude
On the anniversary of Derek Adams’ disappearance, his family wishes to express profound gratitude to the Maine Warden Service, Maine State Police, canine units and Oxford County Sheriff’s Department for a very difficult job well done. Outcome aside, we have been very impressed by their professional expertise and skills. Thanks also to trained search and […]
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President is an embarrassment
The word “Trumpian” is now in our lexicon, whether we like it or not. For little more than a year, we continue to hear the president use campaign phrases when speaking through Twitter or in person. It is easy to predict his simpleton vocabulary, and one can complete his sentences without effort because he makes […]