Taxpayers Fight Back
Regarding “Defeat of Props. 158, 159†(Letters to the Editor, Times Valley Edition, Nov. 17), Ramona ZuTavern asked: “With the state budget mess of this past year and the gridlock in Sacramento still lingering, what were the voters thinking about when they voted these propositions down?â€
The answer is simple: The above propositions would only create more government jobs and expense to the taxpayers, especially property owners, who pay more taxes that the average citizen.
Being a property owner who cannot afford to pay higher taxes to increase the government, which is already much too big, I voted against Props. 158 and 159, and also against the proposition to expand the police force, because it would have taxed only property owners. This is a discriminatory practice, punishing one part of society by the vote of all.
LARRY BICKMANN
Woodland Hills
