State Budget Negotiations
Your article (“Sponsor of Candy Levy Has Answer: Taxes Aren’t Fair,” Part A, May 30) clearly portrayed the concerns the Coalition Against Food Taxes has about a proposal to tax certain foods for the first time in California.
The proposal could easily push families already stretched economically over the financial edge. This new tax proposal wouldn’t tax caviar, lobster or imported macadamia nuts, but it would tax the foods of middle- and lower-income Californians such as crackers, oatmeal cookies and granola. The “snack tax” proposal won’t do much to solve the state’s almost $15-billion deficit, but it could have a devastating effect on families whose paychecks are already stretched to the breaking point.
GRACE GALLIGHER
Coalition of California
Welfare Rights Organizations
Sacramento
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