Assessing Views of Taxes, Quality Education and Protest
The constitutionality of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, as well as the additional tax assessment to property owners, should be challenged at once before the floodgates are opened. It doesn’t matter what the school districts call it; it is an additional tax burden upon each property owner and a way of circumventing Proposition 13.
If the school districts are allowed to get away with this maneuver, it will open the door for every public agency to impose such an “assessment” (tax) for upkeep and improvement of that particular agency.
The school districts are not alone in feeling the pinch of the recession. It has hit everyone and none more so than the property owner. I would certainly think twice before investing in property within a school district that has imposed this additional tax upon the property owner. It is time for another property owners’ revolt!
M. DAVIS, Corona del Mar
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