Letters: Ohio State football fans deserve ticket refunds after easy wins

OSU fans robbed of truly competitive games

The Ohio State football team has smothered visiting teams this season with final scores of 52-6, 56-0 and 49-14. Do these performances really give football coaches and players a genuine sense of satisfaction? Again, this past week, the fans got the short end of the deal by witnessing little to no competition on the field — the result of shallow thinking by members in the athletic department and deliberate scheduling of weak teams.

It would be most appropriate for the OSU athletic department to refund the full amount of each ticket sold to each fan at these three games for knowingly robbing the fans of truly competitive and entertaining football. When can I expect to receive my refund?

Fred Suter, Westerville

Trump engages in uncivil discourse

The Haitians of Springfield filed criminal charges Tuesday against Donald Trump and JD Vance for their vitriolic diatribes against them . The filing claims that Trump and Vance, having been told beforehand that their claims were false, engaged in a knowing and willful flouting of criminal law by disrupting public services, making false alarms, engaging in harassment, aggravated menacing and complicity in the violence that followed Trump’s hateful comments about Haitians in Ohio.

The violent acts included numerous bomb threats and death threats to public officials. See Brandenburg vs Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969): "A state may not forbid speech advocating the use of force or unlawful conduct unless this advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." Sound like it fits Jan. 6? It should. Words do matter.

Of course, Steven Cheung, Trump’s political mouthpiece, says that Trump is only highlighting the failed current immigration system that brought thousands of illegal immigrants into Springfield . However, the fact, if anyone is interested in facts, is that the Haitians who arrived in Springfield were recruited to local jobs. They were granted Temporary Protected Status to be in the US legally. So, they are legal immigrants, not illegal. I guess Cheung is lying. But look who he works for.

John Dirina, Columbus

Trump, Vance don't understand tariffs

Former President Donald Trump continues to repeat the misinformation that China will pay billions of dollars in tariffs to the United States under his administration. The reality is that tariffs are not a tax on the exporter, tariffs are a tax on consumers of the importing country . The exporting country does not pay the tariffs, the importer does and passes on these costs to the purchasers of the imported goods.

As an example of what tariffs cost American consumers: A 2022 report issued by the National Association of Home Builders stated that tariffs on Canadian lumber “have added $14,300 to the price of a typical new home.” This has a detrimental effect on housing affordability and in effect functions as a tax on American builders, homebuyers and consumers.

Mark Corna, Powell

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