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Sound Off for Oct. 1, 2020

Potential solution

There’s a simple fix for Dr. Bill Walker to repay his debt to our state. Garnish a sizable part of his state retirement until he had settled his account. Fair is fair.

A little help?

Biloxi, please clean your sidewalks along the north side of U.S. 90. I walk or try to walk from the mall to Treasure Bay daily. These sidewalks are totally overgrown or covered up. I am handicapped and don’t need the city’s help to fall. Biloxi is spending millions building boardwalks but can’t keep existing sidewalks clean. Something is wrong with this picture. This should be a routine task for the cIty. Sound Off, please print this. I need this to happen to avoid falling.

Other foot

If the shoe were on the other foot, and the Democrats had the White House and Senate, they would surely place a justice on the Supreme Court, if the opportunity occurred. Of course they would.

Wrong conclusion

No matter how much you say the COVID-19 crisis is being handled well, the data does not back you up. Europe, by the way, is a continent. You cannot give an example of one country’s progress and apply it.

Riding a wave

The unemployment rate in November of 2016 was 4.6 percent. Of course, Trump said those were fake numbers. But the numbers became real when he was elected. Obama and Biden rebuilt are economy. Trump just rode a wave.

Free at last

To all my sweet friends and family who were going to hold their noses and vote for Trump so that they could get another conservative on the Supreme Court: You are free. Now you can vote for Biden and let him help heal this country.

No big deal

So boring to read the latest New York Times hit piece on Trump’s IRS escapades. The IRS has been around in one form or another since the 1800s. For the best part of 150 years, people have been trying to understand U.S. tax code and pay the least legitimate amount. It’s called human nature. So where is the story here?

Thank you

Thanks Old Navy. You are the only store where the dressing room is open to try on clothes.. What’s up with all the others stores?

Two roles

Trump is a divider. Biden is a uniter.

Send your Sound Offs to soundoff@sunherald.com

Blake Kaplan
Opinion Contributor,
Sun Herald
Blake Kaplan is a former journalist for the Sun Herald
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