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by Fred SchnaubeltRE: Columnists, Reporters, Letters, Fires, Prop 13
Dear Editor:
It’s incredible how many columnists, reporters, and assorted writers of letters when discussing the recent fires asseverate that the taxpayers who voted for Prop. 13 got their comeuppance .
The majority who voted for Prop. 13 know that government at the local, state and federal levels is awash in money, and is spending it like drunken sailors. The government has streams of money, rivers of money, in fact, oceans of money. It is the stupid, inane, idiotic way in which it is misspent to which we object. Since we don’t have the ability to protest thousands of asinine programs, the only way, yes, the only way, to get some control over profligate spending is to limit government revenues.
In Sunday’s paper Neil Morgan writes, “No politician wants to come right out and tell San Diegans that they are not paying enough in taxes, or that property-tax rates lag those of comparable cities…” Richard Louv writes, “It’s hard to believe that people in this scarred county would oppose even a $100 fee - the price of two or three pairs of Dockers - to help prevent another great fire.”
How about publishing some columns about how hard it is to believe that the government spent $9,000,000 to relocate 8 pair of least Bell’s Vireo, enough money to buy 18 brand new fire engines; or $3,000,000 to support 13 Gnatcatchers, enough money to buy a firefighting helicopter?
It’s these not unconstitutional, but non-constitutional programs, the inability to discern right from wrong, and malfeasance in prioritizing spending, which lead to disasters like the recent fires. Not the lack of tax revenues! There are thousands of reckless spending programs in the city, county, state, and federal budgets, with more than enough money already appropriated to adequately fund legitimate government programs, including public health and safety. But it seems that nearly all politicians, Republican and Democrat, are born with two extra genes, the tax and the spend genes.
Fred Schnaubelt
Fred Schnaubelt
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