City problem? Push for a tax, fee, or levy.
Another city problem? Push for another tax, cheerfully branded as “revenue.”
And on and on it goes, ad nauseam — as Pavlovian a political response as there is on Earth.
Los Angeles and other California jurisdictions need to cut and prioritize spending, live within their means, rein in giveaways to unions, and stop looting cash-strapped taxpayers every 10 minutes.
Toward that end, LA property owners should cast a “no” vote on the city’s latest ploy: gouging homeowners for streetlights plundered by copper-wire thieves.
As The California Postreported exclusively: Rather than preventing, deterring or clamping down on metal theft, Mayor Karen Bass and council members would simply stick residents with a bill for the crime.
City Hall has asked 600,000 LA property owners to sign off on this lunacy, with ballots due June 2.
(The scheme can’t take effect without the assent of a weighted majority of the affected property owners who return ballots, thanks to Prop. 218, approved by state voters in 1996.)
The fact that the gambit made it to balloting — on a 13-1 vote by the city council, with Bass cheering it on — shows how out of touch LA’s ruling class is.
Beleaguered taxpayers already face a national affordability crisis that’s especially acute in high-tax, high-regulation California andyet moreacute in left-wing spendthrift LA.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
