NEWS
September 19, 1993 | DAVE LESHER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
With just six weeks remaining until a special statewide election, California Republicans attending their fall convention Saturday joined a lively debate about the two most controversial issues on the ballot--education and taxes. The school voucher initiative--Proposition 174--has been endorsed by the state Republican Party at two of its past conventions.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 5, 1989
Measure M (Half-cent sales tax increase for transportation): YES Measure N (Irvine Human Rights Ordinance amendment): NO
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 30, 1989
In November, I will be asked to approve the half-cent sales tax increase to fund highway improvements that we now know means the addition of new diamond lanes. It will "only" cost me $75 a year. In June, 1990, I will be asked to approve another half-cent sales tax increase to build new jails. Again, it will "only" cost me $75 a year. This is great coming from a Board of Supervisors that voted itself (supervisors) a 25% salary increase. One final thought: Why is it that politicians only know how to do two things--raise taxes and raise their own salaries?
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 30, 1995
Re "O.C. Voters Reject Sales Tax Hike by 3-2 Margin," June 28: Whenever any one of my fellow Orange County residents complains to me about the terrible fallout from the bankruptcy, my first comment will be to ask that person, "Did you vote for Measure R?" If the answer is "No," my immediate response will be, "Then shut up." MARCIA L. GOODMAN Huntington Beach I'm a Vietnamese American, a registered voter, and voted no on R, of course. I do not want "to express" my "anger . . . to punish somebody," as Sheriff Brad Gates says I do. As one of the taxpayers, I just want the county to explore all the alternate opportunities to reduce the spending (not at the expense of the poor and helpless people, of course)
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 12, 1994
The board of a very small government agency--the Channel Islands Beach Community Services District--just passed a budget resulting in a $4-per-month water rate increase. Rate increases are so routine that most people do not even take note. They just write out the check and go back to work or to the TV set. Always, the offhand dismissal to protesters is that this is only $4 a month, only a half-cent sales tax increase, just a mere $1 a year more on your auto registration fee, really nothing at all. Only a little mandate here, a small regulation there.
OPINION
December 4, 2013
Re "More taxes for more transit?," Editorial, Nov. 24 When voters approved Measure R in 2008, it allowed our region to move forward on transportation improvements that benefited all of Los Angeles County. The half-cent sales tax increase changed L.A.'s landscape drastically, with a new dedicated busway, new light-rail connections and other major projects in the pipeline, including the Expo Line's extension to Santa Monica, the first half of the Gold Line extension to Azusa and the Crenshaw light-rail line to LAX. As Metro weighs a new tax measure, it must appeal to voters throughout the county.