Dear Editor:
Do you think folks are sick and tired of paying higher taxes?
Well you sure wouldn’t know it by the number of endorsements by
well meaning citizens; from Dispatch columnist Doug Meier to the
governor of California.
Dear Editor:
Do you think folks are sick and tired of paying higher taxes? Well you sure wouldn’t know it by the number of endorsements by well meaning citizens; from Dispatch columnist Doug Meier to the governor of California.
In Meier’s case he falls into the same trap a lot of Californians do. It’s for the children or it’s for the schools of it’s for the environment and on and on. Meier should also stick to the facts. As an elected member of both the Santa Clara County Republican Central Committee and the California Republican Party, I assure you that neither of these bodies, the only ones authorized to do so, endorsed Measure B, the library bond. Check your facts Doug before you get a reputation like Dennis “no apologies” Taylor.
I for one, am fed up with higher taxes. Proponents of Measure B say, “It’s only $8.34 more than you’re paying now.” Sure and add that to the previous 50 bonds and propositions and they all add up to big bucks. Measure E, the Gavilan College bond, is another “for the kids” tax. It will expand Gavilan College in Morgan Hill and Hollister. Why should Gilroyans pay for that? Here is something they don’t teach you at Gavilan; a bond is a tax. Repeat after me, A BOND IS A TAX. The governor seems to have missed that lesson as well since he is pushing propositions 57 and 58 after promising no more taxes.
If you agree with the concept that you cannot tax the economy into prosperity, I urge you to tell the politicians, both Democrat and Republican, by voting no on all measures and propositions on today. The most dangerous of these is Proposition 56, the so called Budget Accountability Measure. It couldn’t be further from the truth. If 56 passes, there will be virtually nothing to stop the politicians from passing more and more taxes. It truly is a blank check initiative. I don’t understand why the editorial board of The Dispatch would in one breath urge a no vote on propositions 57 and 58 saying that Sacramento should live within their means, and in the next, endorse Prop 56 which gives unprecedented power to the spend happy Democrat majority who have been held in check by only the slimmest of Republican margins.
In a nutshell, if it has a letter or number next to it on your ballot, VOTE NO.
Mark A. Zappa, Gilroy
Submitted Sunday, Feb. 29 to ed****@****ic.com
