From Santa Cruz Sentinel Opinion page, June 10, 2009:
David Sweet has constructed an alternate history for us. Evil Jarvis and Gann “rammed through” Prop. 13. Rammed through with more than two-thirds of the vote? Prop. 13 resulted, per him, in a lasting decline in revenues. In the past 10 years, the budget increased $70 billion — a 93 percent increase. This is a decline?
Are you 93 percent better off now than 10 years ago? Alas, the Sweet progeny are paying more than Mr. Sweet in property taxes. So lower theirs, don’t raise mine. And while the incarnation of those good representatives Sweet seeks are still shrouded in mist, perhaps we can just limit the wastrels we have to one term so they have to go back to spending their own money. The beginning of the answer to the budget question is to answer the question, “Why does Tiger Woods live in Florida?”
James Jackson
