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Apple’s biggest problem
Is dragging Trump
Re: “Tariffs only add to Apple’s problems” (page A1, April 12).
Shortly after this article was published, Donald Trump exempt the smartphones and other electronic phones from some tariffs imposed on Chinese imports. This directly and significantly benefits Apple, which produces many of its products in China.
Previously, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, personally donated $ 1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee, certainly with the expectation of obtaining some commercial benefits. I wonder what this “commercial benefit” of Trump Cost Cook is. It is cursed to see Cook Grovel before a president who is Anti-LGBTQ+ and refers to Cook as “Tim Apple”.
Linda Sayler
Oakland
Trump deserves
His many detractors
Re: “Trump’s detractors are being bad Americans” (page A6, April 9).
In his letter, Christopher Andrus declared that those of us do not completely support the current president as “not acting as good Americans.”
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Despite that and more, 77 million chose it for another chaotic and crazy term. That, Lord, is the definition of not being a “good American.”
Karen Mahan
Antioch
Trump’s parade would be
Giant money waste
Re: “Trump’s administration could organize a military parade on his birthday” (page A3, April 10).
A military parade in Washington, DC, on July 4, 2026, would be historical. A military parade for someone who turns 79 is more than ridiculous.
The $ 92 million of the taxpayer must be saved for more significant use, instead of waste and abuse.
Grant Bennett
The Cerrito
Republican holdouts actually
Because deeper cuts
It really is quite simple. Republicans are determined to extend the 2017 tax cut that was demonstrated that mainly benefiting large corporations and the richest Americans. This will cost $ 4.5 billion, so they need at least $ 1.5 billion in cuts to federal programs and services.
Last Thursday, I read about “the conservative retreats of the Republican Party that had raised serious doubts about allowing billions of dollars in tax exemptions without deeper expenses.” Today’s Republican Party does not care at all the American people (except the rich, of course). These Republican legislators who drive the cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, the benefits for veterans, food banks, etc., have extremely desirable and comfortable jobs with excellent benefits, including high -level medical care.
Sally Costa
Concord
Trump must be emphasized
His economic plans
Here in California, as in the whole country, we feel the impact of tariffs: higher prices on payment, higher costs for local manufacturers and retaliation rates that harm farmers and exporters. These results are not surprising: they are aligned precisely with the warnings of the vast majority of economists whose advice has been ignorantly ignored.
The Trump Administration justifies this economic self -harm with claims widely rejected by experts. One has to wonder if the objective is not a really economic benefit, but rather a deliberate interruption of stable international cooperation and alliances that finally support US security and prosperity.
It is time to demand reality based on reality, not discredited theories. We need an approach that strengthens the United States through intelligent commitment, not one that inflicts pain to its own citizens while isolate us on the world stage. These rates must be reconsidered according to the facts and their consequences of the real world.
Victoria Rue
Walnut Creek
The point of the article was about
Innovation and isolation
Re: “The column cannot make its point in the rates” (page A6, April 9).
Mr. Mauthe’s letter says that David Brooks does not make a point in the rates. The entire Brooks head was “how tariffs destroy what makes the United States great”, I have a different impression of the point that was being done.
I think that an important concern for global tariffs is the advantage that US explorers and inventors have had intercultural influences in experience. The characteristics of people who have promoted innovation and dynamism include the following: putting yourself in unknown situations; Have a diverse curiosity; Have a social range and a variety of friends; Combining points of view of the disparate world; and be led to continuous growth. These are cosmopolitan features of “daring exploration from a safe base.”
Tariffs necessarily build barriers that hinder the exchange of global ideas, and may have an announcement about what has turned the United States into a leader in the world of innovation.
Richard Bartlett
ORANDA