State Tax Cut Proposal
Gov. Pete Wilson proposes a 15% tax cut. A tax cut, when our libraries are being shut down or put on part-time basis. A tax cut, when our before- and after-school activities are being canceled. A tax cut, when our infrastructure is falling down around our ears.
A tax cut, for corporations that already pay CEOs megabucks while “downsizing” the rank-and-file employees. A tax cut, while our poor and near-poor are denied health care. A tax cut, while gang control programs are being eliminated. A tax cut, while our progress in maintaining our environmental advances is being attacked.
The Mad Hatter’s tea party is in full swing in Sacramento!
BOBBIE CORBETT
Garden Grove
* I write in agreement with your April 12 editorial which questions the appropriateness of the Wilson tax cut proposal. I want to ask a question: Does cutting our state taxes mean that we have more than enough money for law enforcement and education? I thought I heard Wilson and the Republican leadership saying that we need more police officers and teachers. If Wilson has some money he has been hiding away, then he’d better get some more cops on the street and a few more good teachers in the classroom before he starts cutting taxes.
It would appear to me that both dead and illiterate citizens have something in common; they don’t pay much in the way of taxes and they don’t vote.
KEN WILLIS
Upland
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