Tesla tagger
Decide Debra Shopteese was unsuitable in dismissing the case in opposition to Harrison Grant Randall who positioned stickers on a Tesla automobile. Randall allegedly claimed in a video that putting stickers on the automotive was a type of “free speech.” No it isn’t. Defacing one other individuals property just isn’t protected by legislation.
The one automotive defaced with stickers was a Tesla. Due to this fact, it was a deliberate act in opposition to the particular proprietor of the Tesla. Primarily based on Decide Shopteese’s resolution, I can cowl her automotive with President Trump stickers and stroll away dealing with no repercussions. Not so, choose.
Don Houghton
Quincy
Local weather tax
Stephen Moore’s assault on delivery taxes (“Moore: Cease the UN international local weather tax on US ships,” 10/16) overlooks an important truth: American households are already paying for local weather injury by way of their tax payments.
Moore calls worldwide carbon pricing “overseas interference,” however Hurricane Ian price Florida taxpayers $112 billion. Texas households paid $195 billion for the 2021 freeze. These aren’t summary future prices. Relatively, they’re actual cash popping out of American wallets proper now by way of catastrophe aid and insurance coverage.
The delivery trade Moore defends will get particular therapy that different companies don’t take pleasure in. Ships burn the dirtiest fuels out there whereas avoiding air pollution guidelines that apply on land. In the meantime, taxpayers foot the invoice when local weather injury hits.
Moore worries about China beating us in shipbuilding, however his method ensures we’ll fall additional behind. Different nations are creating cleaner delivery expertise whereas we defend yesterday’s polluting ships. The carbon tax Moore opposes would merely make delivery corporations pay a few of their actual prices as a substitute of dumping them on taxpayers. That’s fundamental accountability.
Conservative ideas ought to imply the polluter pays, not the taxpayer. When industries revenue whereas households pay for the injury, that’s company welfare disguised as free market coverage.
Frederick Hewett
Cambridge
Donald Trump
If the 2024 election is an indicator of “the place the wind blows” it’s fairly apparent that Donald Trump was blowing within the wind. All of the swing states; the favored vote; the minority vote; the anti-illegal vote.
9 months in and, to date, issues look good. Border secured, economic system rising, troops having to do what native police gained’t do. Trimming down authorities fats.
The NO KINGS individuals ought to understand that they wouldn’t be capable to protest this concept in a rustic dominated by an precise king as a result of they’d be eradicated put up haste.
Jack Zaccardi
East Boston
