Editor,
I was wondering what to write about when I opened up the paper and there on the front page was a picture of state Sen. Scott Wiener promoting a new transit tax.
Editor,
I was wondering what to write about when I opened up the paper and there on the front page was a picture of state Sen. Scott Wiener promoting a new transit tax.
My lucky day.
This tax would hit the taxpayers for $750 million annually because, as the good senator says “We have never funded our public transportation agencies in a way that will allow them to succeed.” But wait, aren’t you a member of the forever Democrat controlled Legislature. Aren’t you the “We?” So, basically, you have been fiscally irresponsible and now want the taxpayers to bail you out again. U.S. News ranks California 40th in short term fiscal stability. And 24/7 Wall Street, an independent financial news company, ranks California as the worst run state for the second year in a row. So senator, do you really think that folks who don’t ride transit are going to vote to bail you out or are you just trying to use the taxpayers as the scapegoat to hide your fiscal incompetence? Before you again reach into our pockets get your own house in order.
Steven Howard
Redwood City
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(3) comments
One word: supermajority
Thanks for your letter, Mr. Howard, but we all know that Dems will never get their own house in order as long as they keep increasing public pensions and benefits. Dems floating any tax measure is never for the purposes being discussed. All tax measures are only to pay for these ever-increasing public pensions and benefits. Voters get the government they deserve and as long as they’re fooled with these pleas for more money… Fortunately or unfortunately, those that can afford to can move to a better run state.
Another leftist solution that makes no sense. Why would consolidation be more expensive than the status quo? Shouldn't the inverse be the result?
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