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The Issue: A brand new Siena ballot exhibiting 27% of New Yorkers plan to depart the state within the subsequent 5 years.
The nice exit from New York ought to come as no shock (“Exit stage left,” April 13).
With excessive taxes, soiled streets and a dysfunctional academic system, there is no such thing as a the place to go however out.
New York is dominated by liberal Democrats whose failed insurance policies have alienated half the inhabitants.
No open dialogue, no compromise and no consideration for opposing views. Their manner or the freeway. While I’m nonetheless in New York, I needed to get out of Brooklyn.
Jerry Chiappetta
Monticello
The characteristic article “Empire’s Flee Circus” was nearly humorous. Enjoy Texas, with no license wanted to open-carry a handgun, and hope a buyer at a big-box retailer is unarmed.
Hurricanes and sky-high dwelling insurance coverage charges go hand-in-hand in Florida. And Los Angeles has site visitors, floods and homeless camps downtown. Enjoy your new-found Edens.
Robert J. Katz
Manhattan
According to a brand new ballot, 27% of New York state residents plan to depart the state within the subsequent 5 years.
On Easter Sunday, my spouse and I have been visiting associates and ended up discussing the issues right here in New York.
My pal of over 50 years advised me that just a few years in the past, a person climbed right into a window in his home whereas he was dwelling. He didn’t communicate and didn’t steal something. He appeared to be mentally sick.
My pal referred to as the police and the person left by the window once more. After that, my pal received an alarm system. He tells me he and his spouse need to go away New York.
My spouse and I are over 70 and now not really feel protected in New York. The backside line is that the costs are too darn excessive and New York is now not a protected place to dwell.
Frederick R. Bedell, Jr.
Bellerose
I plan to show in my New York state driver’s license for one issued in Georgia in about six months.
This is for the explanations that you just contact upon in your article and different points related to the best way the state is run. I’m achieved.
Rob Spieler
Sharon Springs
The Issue: A 1992 essay written by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries defending anti-Semitic statements by his uncle.
Any anti-Semitic assertion is troubling, particularly by a public official (“Jeffries heat for ’92 essay,” April 14).
However, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was a younger man when he wrote his opinion piece. There isn’t any proof of a recurrence.
But there are a lot of elected officers, sadly in each events, who clearly have a constant sample of selling anti-Semitism and have to be ostracized for it. Whether it’s former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene or Rep. Ilhan Omar, their views have to be repudiated and stop them from successful elected workplace.
Alan Podhaizer
Brooklyn
The connection between Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and the anti-Semitic CUNY professor Leonard Jeffries wouldn’t matter a lot had Rep. Jeffries obfuscated much less round his personal actions on the outset of his profession and identified extra clearly that he didn’t share his uncle’s views.
The piece he wrote defending each his uncle and Louis Farrakhan reveals his true nature.
Having solely “a imprecise recollection” of the controversy merely doesn’t reduce it. The two issues to disdain most about any Democratic pol are his (or her) faces.
David S. Levine
Hobe Sound, Fla.
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