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Excessive taxes are a fantasy
for well-off residents
Re. “No on Alameda $2,000 a yr college tax whole,” Web page A6, Could 11:
Sadly, the editors of the East Bay Occasions and Bay Space Information Group proceed to pander to the parable that California taxes are too excessive.
Sure, they're excessive for these working and new homebuyers. However those that have lived in the identical house for many years or transferred their tax base to a brand new house have been receiving companies they haven't been paying for for years.
Disgrace on these whose dad and mom understood the shared prices of colleges, police, firefighters, roads, municipal buildings, and many others. Their self-serving “I’m simply doing what everybody else is doing” is a shame. A former colleague with two school-aged kids bragged about paying $1,500 in property taxes. Proposition 13 has tied the fingers of cities and cities with unrealistic income limits.
Self-interest and worry are the issues, not taxes.
Dave Ruede
Oakland
We should pay to maintain
faculties operating excessive
Re. “No on Alameda $2,000 a yr college tax whole,” Web page A6, Could 11:
Yesterday’s BANG editorial screamed at voters of town of Alameda to reject upcoming poll measures calling for elevated taxes.
No point out was product of why funding of training has been so problematic in California since voters handed Proposition13 in 1978. Prop. 13 infamously gave house and business property homeowners the bottom property taxes in the USA, and later among the many worst faculties within the nation – as a substitute of what had been among the many finest.
Due to principled, hardworking elected officers, good authorities advocates and savvy (and well-off) dad and mom, college students attending higher faculties like Alameda’s have lucked out through the years. Alameda residents ought to need to preserve it that approach … hopefully.
Ruby MacDonald
El Cerrito
Kumagai has the talents
to tame housing disaster
The insanely excessive price of housing is my No. 1 precedence concern, and once I solid my vote, I must know my vote will elect an skilled chief who already has a confirmed file of instituting efficient housing options.
As the one candidate within the Meeting who has ever held elected workplace, Shawn Kumagai is that chief and is endorsed by the Housing Motion Coalition and California Sen. Scott Weiner. Whereas Dublin’s vice mayor and metropolis councilmember, he labored to ship a number of massive, inexpensive housing initiatives, together with 300 items situated proper at BART, and he continues to assist good housing growth akin to transit-oriented initiatives to be able to make our group greener and extra inexpensive.
I’m voting for Shawn as a result of he really understands we simply can’t afford to easily sit again and watch our households and neighbors get shut out of getting a safe place to name house.
Carla Mill
Castro Valley
Let’s not emulate
dictators on speech
Re. “Various opinion completely different than pure propaganda,” Web page A6, April 12:
Once more, liberal readers of this newspaper imagine they, and their favourite information sources, have a monopoly on “actuality.” They state that “Free speech permits them (conservative information) to undermine their supporters’ actuality.”
OK. Imagine me, we conservatives hear the liberal views every single day. It’s inescapable.
We're additionally instructed by liberals that enacting the Equity Doctrine will make all information, opinion and reporting palatable for all, forgetting that the Equity Doctrine could be adjudicated by people – with agendas. And by no means thoughts that the Equity Doctrine has been routinely utilized by administrations on either side as a hammer to squash opposing views and doesn’t encourage discussions of controversial opinions.
If Fox Information is such a mendacity information pariah, you'd suppose that after 25 years because the chief in cable information, they'd be useless and buried. Let the marketplace determine. Let’s not emulate Russia and China.
Steve Mahler
Livermore
It’s time Congress codify
girls’s proper to decide on
Re. “Politicians urge battle for proper to abortion,” Web page A1, Could 7:
On this Mom’s Day, I mirrored on the freedoms that offered me with the selection to change into a mom of three kids.
First, the power to decide on contraception previous to marriage and experiment with love relationships. Subsequent, the power to decide on an interracial and interfaith marriage, after which the selection to have kids after receiving my graduate diploma and getting my profession off the bottom to solidify my very own safety. Later, the power to decide on to exit a wedding and stay a single mom till I discovered the fitting associate to assist me increase my three kids.
I worry that my daughter who's 21 gained’t have these selections when it's her time to change into a mom. We have to codify these phrases via legal guidelines in order that these freedoms change into rights simply as within the Declaration of Independence: We maintain these truths to be self-evident.
Andrea Bloom
Pleasanton