Clearly Mayor Gloria and the City Council did not understand the message from voters when we rejected increasing the sales tax by 1 percentage point. We were saying we already pay a lot in city taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and state and federal taxes. The cost of living in San Diego is high, including water and SDG&E rates, and inflation is hurting everyone.
The city continues to waste money, including spending millions on how much to charge for trash pickup and which streets need repaving, etc. These questions are obvious and should not require paying the politicians’ consultant buddies.
Our message is for our leaders to use the money they already have more wisely and quit wasting our money on their pet projects. It was not to double the cost of trash pickup and parking meters and increase prices on library room rentals and public transportation, etc.
How could they miss such a simple message?
— Mike Fausett, Pacific Beach
