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Economic policies should improve, not harm, standard of living

Our domestic and international economic policies should improve not harm our standard of living. Domestic economic policies that encourage the creation of low-paying jobs to compete internationally on price do not raise our standard of living. Placing higher tariffs on imported goods without wage increases to offset the higher costs of these goods does not raise the domestic standard of living; it does the opposite. Tariffs also spark retaliatory tariffs. As the cost of U.S. goods to foreign consumers goes up, U.S. overseas sales go down, hurting manufacturing and agribusiness and ...

New York just keeps losing

We already know New York has been losing more people than it has been gaining, and we know that New York is on a never-ending spending spree with our money, but now we know that New York has been steadily losing not just people, but specifically taxpayers, since 2015. The stunning report, recently released by our current state comptroller, very clearly shows New York has been suffering a net loss of taxpayers since 2015. As the Comptroller points out in his report, ‘personal income taxes are New York’s largest tax revenue source, accounting for more than one out of two tax dollars ...

Invite ABC speakers to Chautauqua’s main stage

CHAUTAUQUA — Those who have read, listened to, or watched the news this year know that some are shocked at the ascendancy of socialism among Democrats. They’re right to be shocked in the sense of left aghast. Yet no one should be shocked in the sense of surprised. Step by step, ...

Who is taking Islam seriously?

Imploring a young audience to “discard the stuck-on-stupid card,” retired Lieutenant Colonel Alan West then quoted poet Maya Angelou, “When people show you who they are the first time, believe them.” Spoken not just once, “Death to America” has been bellowed a gazillion times by Islamic Shias in Iran and elsewhere including Dearborn, MI. Do you believe them? If not, you own a “stuck-on-stupid” card. In New York City, Muslims on Times Square incessantly shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” The leader addressing the hyped-up horde said sarcastically, “Don’t scare them, ...

Charging back on state of electricity

The Editor’s corner by John D’Agostino of August 14 on renewables jolting electric costs was full of misinformation and contradictions. You mentioned that we shuttered “clean burning coal plants.” There is no such thing as clean burning coal, never was. That misrepresentation alone shot your credibility early on. You then jump to the environmental transformation of Lake Erie brought on by the shuttering of “clean burning coal plants” and other industrial facilities that turned the lake (and the land surrounding it) into a toxic waste dump. So is cleaning up polluting ...

Six Supremes put U.S. elections up for sale

Statistics suggest that our current Supreme Court justices have some of the highest IQs in America. It seems fair to conclude, then, that six of them knew exactly what they were doing when they effectively put for-sale signs on the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government—on the presidency, on the Senate, on the House of Representatives. The deciding six were Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas. Definitely and positively, all six realized the message they were sending to candidates and their big-money organizational ...