Editor,

Regarding the article “Board of Supervisors delays increasing sales tax,” so a county staff report concluded we need a sales tax increase (up to .5%) to “help address affordability challenges for all San Mateo residents.”

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Terence Y
Terence Y

Thanks for your letter, C.J., highlighting the affordability hypocrisy pushed by folks that want to ensure ever-increasing union salaries, pensions, and benefits are paid, to the detriment of taxpayers. I’d say that any scheme to fool taxpayers into transferring more of their hard-earned money to public unions would be on everyone’s bingo card. Until government, BART or other public transportation begins to do any sort of fiscal management, vote NO on any tax measures. Remember public transportation unions continue to run at 100% capacity labor operations with less than 50% ridership.

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