Los Angeles Raises Parking Fees, Business Tax
Business tax is going to be 10% of gross receipts. That is a big number!
What is also “gross” is that the same package includes “. . . a doubling of a special levy that pays for trash trucks.”
New trash trucks with hydraulic arms are going to be bought to replace all of the present trucks under a new law that mandates use of 60-gallon trash containers. That must be more than a million containers that must also be purchased!
Present trash collection is quite satisfactory, thank you. Why spend all this extra money on new trucks and back-breaking containers? How about spending it on more needy causes or, golly, a smaller tax increase?
FRANK ATHA
Pacific Palisades
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