Trim the tax

Re “Trash tax doesn’t just hire police,” July 9

For my money, a politician whose every other idea is to tax the constituency is a hack without a creative bone in his or her body, and this revelation that hiking our trash fee has paid for expenses other than its purported purpose -- hiring police -- is disgusting.

To pour acid into the wound, City Controller Laura Chick says that if she’d known how a substantially unused portion of the revenue would be allotted, she would have promoted the tax differently.

How about lowering the rate just enough to support the alleged need?

Jules Brenner

Hollywood