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Don’t buy into anti-tariff ‘news’

To the editor: Interesting how people can become so excited over an event, major as it is and display such a lack of knowledge about what is happening.  The new tariff action by Trump is long overdue. China charges 67%, Japan charges 46%, South Korea charges 50% and the European Union charge 39%.  These countries have almost no American automobiles while 45% of all the cars Americans buy are made by these countries.  If those foreign cars average $40,000 that means that each year, we spend $286.2 billion on foreign cars. Americans buy 15,900,000 cars each year at $40,000 that is ...

Guest Commentary | Lee Schools offers range of options

When it comes to choosing the right educational path for students, families often weigh the benefits of public versus private schools. The School District of Lee County stands out as an exceptional choice, offering a broad range of academic and career-focused programs designed to prepare all ...

Tariffs are nothing new

To the editor: Tariffs have been used by politicians for years. President Trump is doing it because of the unfair trade practices of other countries towards America. America must not rely on foreign adversarial governments for our essential products. We should have learned difficult lessons from past experiences. Remember the time when Saudi Arabia and the oil cartels halted oil production, leading to not only long gas lines but also restrictions on purchasing fuel on specific days, which devastated many businesses? The United States is vulnerable when it comes to pharmaceuticals, ...

America needs to stop arming cartels

To the editor: Here’s a startling fact that every American should be aware of: The vast majority of firearms used by cartels don’t come from secret smuggling operations — they are sourced directly from U.S. gun dealers. Each year, approximately 500,000 American guns are trafficked into Mexico, exacerbating cartel violence and worsening the fentanyl crisis. Shockingly, around 70% of firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico trace back to the United States. So, how is this escalation in violence occurring? The answer lies in unclear gun laws and significant loopholes present in ...

Trump’s reckless tariffs are a severe threat to the U.S. economy

To the editor: In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, which raised American tariffs (taxes) on imports by the second-highest amount in U.S. history. This bill had disastrous consequences, when retaliatory tariffs strongly contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The U.S. depression was long and grueling and only subsided because of President Franklin Roosevelt’s government jobs program, followed by rapid World War II economic build-up. In Europe, the combination of retaliatory tariffs and World War I sanctions/reparations on Germany pushed ...

The ground-glass sandwich

To the editor: As a committed and practicing Libertarian of some years, I see the incumbent President as being attractive and repellent at the same time, a veritable ground-glass sandwich. (Specifically, if you take a bite, you will get fed and shredded at the same time). I mean, I enthuse about the attack on the sheer size of the federal government (however brutally), the repatriation of power to the States, and the volte-face in our foreign entanglements. What’s not to like? At the same time, however, I see here a “man on horseback,” one who has a preposterously aggressive ...