Thread: L. A. Breaking News: Villaraigosa Supports Sales Tax HIKE

This is WAR...my fellow Angelenos!!! Every single morning we awaken to a NEW tax...the Mexican mafia is raping us...no other word for it, sorry! They have squandered the biggest tax revenue surplus in the history of L.A. and now they want us to pay for their looting of our treasury. EVERYTHING has gone into their pockets and the pockets of their precious illegals. Villar is guilty of gross abuse of power and gross mis-appropriation of funds! This "subway to the sea" project would primarily serve the illegals and Mexicans who work on the Westside! Villar is trying to cash in on the high gas prices, but increasing the sales tax is adding insult to injury! The gas tax revenue was supposed to ONLY go for roads and highways...but they diverted ALL of it to the General Fund. We have been robbed! We need ro form an Action Committee NOW!

Breaking news: L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa supports a sales-tax hike for transportation projects

I just rode the subway with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who said for the first time publicly that he would like to ask voters in November to consider a half-cent sales-tax increase in Los Angeles County to pay for more road and mass transit projects.

"I'd like to get a sales-tax initiative on the ballot, but we have to build a consensus on that first. I'm working on that as we speak," the mayor said.

The idea of a November transportation tax has been gaining ground with rising gas prices and increasingly public pressure for new transit lines like the Wilshire Boulevard "Subway to the Sea" and the extension of the Gold Line in the San Gabriel Valley.

Earlier this month, David Fleming, chairman of the Los Angeles County Business Federation, said that as a Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member he intends to vote to move the sales tax forward toward the November ballot. He just wants assurances that the money won't be raided later for some other government purpose.

Villaraigosa has made building a Wilshire subway a top priority of his administration. But his efforts have made little headway largely because of the $5 billion-plus price tag. Congress last year lifted a longtime ban on tunnel work under Wilshire Boulevard -- but the money to build a subway remains a major problem.

Even if a tax goes on the ballot, it remains unclear whether it would pass. Some elected officials in the San Gabriel Valley and elsewhere have questioned whether the benefits of a subway are worth the huge costs. Transportation officials are consider a variety of new rail lines elsewhere, including extending the Gold Line, a second phase of the Expo Line from Culver City to Santa Monica and a new line along Crenshaw Boulevard.

More later.

-- Steve Hymon

June 25, 2008


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottlen ... ews-1.html

I'll pay a higher tax to get rid of them but not to keep this status quo of funding them.

Leave California. Utah is sounding good after they got rid of their incumbent congressman. I have a young couple who can afford their home. They have three kids. Seeing the change in our town with the illegals, they are going to let their house foreclose and leave the state and rent. People are fed up. It's worth it to them because they've only been in the house for less than two years. Houses here are selling for $100,000 to $150,000 less than last year. So they are upside down on it and the lender won't go for a short sale. Walk away. Start over in three years.

Originally Posted by Gogo

Leave California. Utah is sounding good after they got rid of their incumbent congressman. I have a young couple who can afford their home. They have three kids. Seeing the change in our town with the illegals, they are going to let their house foreclose and leave the state and rent. People are fed up. It's worth it to them because they've only been in the house for less than two years. Houses here are selling for $100,000 to $150,000 less than last year. So they are upside down on it and the lender won't go for a short sale. Walk away. Start over in three years.

Gogo...if I had a mortgage in CA, I would DEFINITELY walk away from it just on principle!. CA is now a kleptocracy! But my family has lived here for generations and, fortunately, we don't have a mortgages anymore. That said, I have NEVER seen a city go to hell so fast and so furiously than in the last ten years. But the final nail in the coffin is VILLAR and his Mexican mafia. They are like a bunch of rabid dogs running wild in the streets...stealing whatever they can get their hands on. They are living lifestyles of the rich and famous and it's like a Roman orgy with them! The truth of the matter is that they are ALL anchor babies who come from the barrios of East LA with a third rate education. They are just as illiterate as the illegals slithering over the border.

We are going to stay and fight until the last dog dies! My kids used to think I was obsessed and possessed, but now they are just like me, lol! Even my 17 year old granddaughter has taken up the cause! She does all of my mailings, flyers and posters, which is a God-send! She is going into Political Science next year so that she can pick up the gauntlet! We are mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore!

Wow AmericanMe your braver than I am. I'm southern CA born and raised. I'm ready to give up on CA. It is soooooooo corrupt it isn't worth fighting for. Let them have their crime, their welfare and their losing tax base. After that a revolution just might occur in L.A. and California. Either that or a huge earthquake. LOL

Originally Posted by Gogo

Wow AmericanMe your braver than I am. I'm southern CA born and raised. I'm ready to give up on CA. It is soooooooo corrupt it isn't worth fighting for. Let them have their crime, their welfare and their losing tax base. After that a revolution just might occur in L.A. and California. Either that or a huge earthquake. LOL

LOL, Gogo...maybe 'brave' is the wrong word..."STUPID" is probably more like it! I think I'm still living in a time warp when the schools were the best, everyone spoke ENGLISH, housing was affordable, and Mexicans were 'simpatico'...good, hard-working 'immigrants' who were grateful to America for giving them the opportunities of a lifetime. ..the the days BEFORE LaRaza, LULAC, MALDEF, and all the Mexican consulates moved in to highjack this country. I'm probably one of the last of the 60's generation who remembers the good old days. But...never fear...we will win this battle!

I was born and raised in CA as well. I would like nothing better than to leave this state and start over somewhere else. The problem is, how can I guarantee it will be better elsewhere. I have traveled, but never lived anywhere else for an extended period of time.

It's somewhat frightening to move to another state, with no family, essentially starting over. At other times, I take the attitude, why should I have to leave? This is my country and I was born and raised here. I nor my parents had to sneak across the border! If anyone has to leave it should be them, not me!

Then I come to the realization that California has seen it's better days, and I do not see it ever returning to the way it was. There is nothing to stay here for. This uncontrolled, illegal invasion has been going on for the past twenty years, reaching it's pinnacle. The result is a school district (LAUSD) that exists almost exclusively to educate illegals and anchor babies.

I had to spend the morning at the DMV today. I'm not even going to get into that! Trust me, it was depressing.
Some woman brought a dictionary with her to take the written exam. Is she going to be driving around with the dictionary open? Of course, they let her use it.

It's not easy at 40 years old watching the state you were born and raised in being handed over to a third-world country, at the blessing of its leadership.

Sorry for the rambling, but I feel better now

Originally Posted by NoBueno

I was born and raised in CA as well. I would like nothing better than to leave this state and start over somewhere else. The problem is, how can I guarantee it will be better elsewhere. I have traveled, but never lived anywhere else for an extended period of time.

It's somewhat frightening to move to another state, with no family, essentially starting over. At other times, I take the attitude, why should I have to leave? This is my country and I was born and raised here. I nor my parents had to sneak across the border! If anyone has to leave it should be them, not me!

Then I come to the realization that California has seen it's better days, and I do not see it ever returning to the way it was. There is nothing to stay here for. This uncontrolled, illegal invasion has been going on for the past twenty years, reaching it's pinnacle. The result is a school district (LAUSD) that exists almost exclusively to educate illegals and anchor babies.

I had to spend the morning at the DMV today. I'm not even going to get into that! Trust me, it was depressing.
Some woman brought a dictionary with her to take the written exam. Is she going to be driving around with the dictionary open? Of course, they let her use it.

It's not easy at 40 years old watching the state you were born and raised in being handed over to a third-world country, at the blessing of its leadership.

Sorry for the rambling, but I feel better now

I hear you and I'm over 20 years older than you. I couldn't see living anywhere else. Now I can't see living here at all. It will take a huge jolt for it to change and I'm afraid it will be bloodshed. I don't to see it or hear it. I'll just keep moving as long as I can move.