Once again, Thomas Shields is spreading propaganda touting the virtues of conservative politics (March 19). Americans don’t support welfare as a way of life. Certainly fraud shouldn’t be tolerated. What conservatives and liberals disagree on is how to fix it. According to usgovernmentspending.com, welfare is 6 percent of the 2016 Maine budget and 7 percent […]
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Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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U.S. jobs hurt by politicians
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s policy of reducing quotas on foreign shoemaking killed the local shoe manufacturing industry. In 2013, the sales tax was extended to include newspapers and magazines. The legislators behind that destructive act have helped kill the papermaking industry here in the U.S. Those greedy politicians should be identified by name and […]
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Ranked-choice voting works
We support the citizen initiative to enact ranked-choice voting in elections and primaries for governor, representatives to the U.S. Congress and to the Maine Senate and House of Representatives. For too long, candidates for these offices have been elected with less than a majority of voters supporting them. The past six governors have each gained […]
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A lack of integrity
It troubles me greatly that this nation is confronted by a potential candidate for the presidency who completely lacks the integrity and the depth of character required of that historic position. Donald Trump belittles and insults people, sows hatred in his path and appears to have been dishonest in some of his business dealings. He […]
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Save paper, save yourselves
Another month, another paper mill gone. The loss of the mill in Madison marks a watershed moment. If the demand for paper is so low, does the U.S. really need to import any paper from outside its borders? Are jobs in Indonesia and China more important than jobs here? The answer to both questions is […]
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Death needs further investigation
I am so angry after reading the Sun Journal story about the Elan School (March 13). I believe every word of it and remember the rumors and stories about that school. Why the state did not investigate, I cannot imagine. Perhaps it was because it believed in smaller government; or that kids who weren’t nice […]
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Step forward, conservatives
Accountability — an important element in Maine’s welfare benefits. It seems the Maine Democrats have suddenly discovered it and are claiming authorship of new legislation. The question is, since Democrats had voted against its implementation in the past, why do they now accept it? Recent Sun Journal and other newspaper articles noted Republicans suspected that […]
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GOP senators should do their job
Some members of the U.S. Senate have indicated that they will, again, block President Barack Obama. Senators have a constitutional responsibility to confirm a Supreme Court justice nominated by the president. However, the Republicans in power have stated that they will not even conduct hearings regarding the president’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Garland should not be […]
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Society running amok with guns
Once again, V. Paul Reynolds sounded the alarm about threats to gun rights in his column: “Sportsmen lost a good friend when Justice Scalia died” (March 13). A long time hunter, the justice was instrumental in the District of Columbia v. Heller decision in 2008 which supported the right of an individual to own a […]
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Christians not so Christlike
I have had one of those “that’s-the-last-straw” moments. Recently, I read in a major newspaper that a group of Christian teachers wants to bring their religion into U.S. public schools. That raises the question of which Christian religion they want to bring into the schools — the one Christ taught or the one that gets […]