County’s Proposed Sales Tax Increase
The Times Opinion section (July 16) carried an editorial extolling certain elements of a proposed new half-cent sales tax increase.
The closing sentence of the editorial was so far off base it begs for a rebuttal: “The degree to which traffic has worsened since they (the voters) voted down the sales tax increase in 1984 is one of the strongest arguments for not making the same mistake again Nov. 7.”
After the citizens of Orange County rejected Proposition A by a whopping 70% to 30%, the only mistake made was that the Board of Supervisors continued to approve massive new development on an unprecedented scale, without requiring that even a bare minimum of support systems be in place to accommodate the densities.
The new tax proposal seems to be quite different from Proposition A, but please don’t blame the voters for the current mess.
THOMAS C. ROGERS,
Chairman
Citizens Against Unfair Taxation
San Juan Capistrano
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