Politicians, Tax Hikes and Gas Tax Measures
It is time to say no to more than just drugs! On Jan. 1, Social Security taxes increased a hefty 15.3%. Willie Brown is proposing that the temporary quarter-cent earthquake tax be made permanent, as though that should come as a surprise. On Nov. 6 we will be asked to vote for a 100% increase in the state gasoline tax, from 9 cents to 18 cents a gallon.
After the Orange County voters overwhelmingly turned down a sales tax increase called Prop. A, the officials came back with a $2.5-million-plus campaign to try and sell one more increase called Measure M. The ink is hardly dry from the reports of that defeat, and here they are coming back to the trough one more time and proposing one more vote on the same twice-defeated tax increase.
This time every voter should get out and leave little doubt in these non-representative official minds that no means no!
WILLIAM H. EARNEST
Orange
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