Let for-hire cars advertise too

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Brooklyn: I am a for-hire-vehicle driver in New York City. Before the Taxi & Limousine Commission revoked my digital rooftop advertising permit, I was making an extra $300 every month by simply having the digital screen on my car. I earned this money without having to drive extra hours. The extra income from the rooftop ad allowed me to start searching for health insurance coverage.

In August, I had to remove my rooftop screen after the TLC arbitrarily decided to ban rooftop advertising on for-hire vehicles. Since then, I have been driving an extra 20 hours every month to make up the difference in lost income. I already drive at least 50 hours every week for Uber and Lyft. It’s hard to cover expenses in a city that only gets more and more expensive.

Drivers in New York are struggling, and despite the desperate need for additional income, the TLC has only permitted taxis to install rooftop advertising signs. I’m shocked that the Taxi and Limousine Commission insists on taking money out of the pockets of the same people it’s supposed to be supporting.

For-hire vehicle drivers should be able to earn the same money from advertising that taxi drivers do. I urge the Taxi and Limousine Commission to allow for-hire vehicle drivers to have digital rooftop advertising to make additional monthly income and support our families. Paul Klimas

She said it

Staten Island: Enough already! The correction officers at the Metropolitan Correction Center on duty at the time Jeffrey Epstein “committed suicide” did us all a favor.

Myra Goodman

The circle of life

Glendale: Regarding Voicer Donald Henton’s remark that “men should not tell women what to do with their bodies”: A little biology lesson. First of all Donald, a fetus (baby) is not part of a women’s body. It is a separate unique human being. A fetus (a developing human being) temporarily resides inside a woman’s body and does rely on the body for life support as it develops along its natural progression. If you don’t believe me that a fetus is a human being, do yourself a favor and accompany a pregnant woman to the doctor’s office when she is scheduled to have a sonogram. That one picture debunks all of the old arguments you’ve been told. Furthermore, why do abortion providers and advocates fight tooth and nail to prohibit states from requiring women to get sonograms prior to getting an abortion? The fact is that a sonogram is bad for

the baby-killing industry since it shows the indisputable truth! Thomas Murawski

Bad day for turkeys

Manhattan: Most are unaware, but approximately 45 million turkeys are slaughtered for Thanksgiving. It’s truly a puzzling way to “celebrate” being “thankful.”

Mickey Kramer

Get in line

Rockaway Beach: I heard a rumor that a new temporary employment agency is opening up. It’s going to be called Trump’s Walk-Offs. Should be plenty of slightly disgusted talent available, many who are suitable for much more than dancing gigs on TV. New people added on an almost daily basis. Tune in tomorrow.

Maureen McNelis

Mansplanation

North Miami Beach, Fla.: In regard to the rebuttal to Voicer Renee Fineberg’s answer to Voicer Steve Chaddock’s letter praising President Trump: I think Fineberg’s trashing of Trump is pure stupidity and ignorance. By her last name, I assume Fineberg is of the Jewish faith. To my knowledge, no other president has been more supportive of the Jewish state of Israel than Trump.

Fineberg is a self-hating Jew and anti-Semite. Michael Stoff

Bonkers

East Northport, L.I.: I just read something in a Daily News op-ed that seems insane to me: getting rid of the BQE (“Buck the BQE,” Nov. 25). I know NIMBYism blocks so much of what we need to do, but instead of proposals to cut off traffic that has to go somewhere (like through local New York City and Long Island roads and streets), come up with proposals that meet actual needs. Ron Troy

A non-subscriber

Winchester, Va.: I just opened the Daily News app this morning and now they want to charge people! I’m glad the Daily News decided to charge people for their app because now they will only get liberals to pay up. I’m not a liberal, nor will I ever be, but I read the Daily News because: a) I want to see what articles they have that the Post doesn’t have and b) I want to keep up with what’s going on in the city. I don’t live in New York anymore so I have the Post, and the Newsday apps and the Daily News app to keep up with what’s happening. I like to read about how Cuomo is ruining New York, strongarming National Grid, etc.

Brian Schuele

A referendum

Medford, L.I.: I would like to float the idea of eradicating the Fourth of July, which can fall on any day of the week, and, using the Thanksgiving model, having Independence Day fall on the first Thursday of July — thus giving everyone the certainty of a Thanksgiving-like four-day weekend in the opening weeks of summer. Then all we would need to do is line the Super Bowl up with President’s Day weekend and we’d have corrected the two glaring imperfections of the work calendar.

Eugene R. Dunn

Bound for ESPN

North Brunswick, N.J.: The New York Giants will not win as long as Daniel Jones is quarterback and the coaching stays. The coach hates Eli Manning so he would rather lose than use Eli and have Jones watch.

Edward Jurewicz

Dual mayors

Brooklyn: Where are my tax dollars going? Our incompetent mayor is throwing away

GETTY IMAGES money on trying to create new homeless outreach units within the NYPD when his co-mayor wife blew almost a billion dollars already trying to fix mental illness and only made it worse. Under his administration, the way to fix a problem is to throw taxpayers’ money at it with no accountability. They should know that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is pure insanity.

Michael McCormack

Murky history

East Meadow, L.I.: To Voicer James League: Despite the internet meme making the rounds which you take as gospel, George Washington never said that the right to own firearms is so a citizen can protect himself from his own government. In all of his speeches and writings, he only once mentioned firearms. In his first State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1790, Washington stated: “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.” That discipline means an armed, trained militia, like the one he sent to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, when armed citizens attacked government officials. Richard Skibins