Sound Off for December 13, 2017

The greed and envy tax

Why is there an estate tax on a few taxpayers other than jealousy of neighbors, greed of government and abuse of power? Academics argue the wealthy should hire good tax advisors. No, it's theft.

No culture war for Romans

Actually, “the season” was already established. Jesus was added later to latch on to another celebration. No one talks about the “war on Saturnalia.”

They’re just tuning up

Mikey Flynn, Paulie Manafort, Rickey Gates and Georgie Papadopoulous are quiet as church mice in public. I betcha in private they are recording an album as The Four Singing Canaries. Undoubtedly a Gold Record.

Seller’s market

So the Army is preparing to sell 10,000 surplus pistols. That should fill about half the demand in south Columbus.

Shameful priorities

Fires are burning down California. Money should have been used on climate change instead of spending billions locking up innocent immigrants. How do you explain destroying God's earth, while chaining and taking his poorest people?

This story was originally published December 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Sound Off for December 13, 2017."