Comments on: Pollution tax storm heads for L.A. County

By: Bill Holmes

Bill Holmes — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:12:03 +0000

We got the notice and it says my Moms property that she has owned for 43 years (38 acres)is going to be taxed almost $18,000 per year, her property tax now is a bloated $6K and they want to add $18K on top ($24,000 per year) for a 78 year old woman living on Social Security.
This is so wrong in so many ways as she will lose her property to the Goverment because there is no way she can afford $24,000 per year on Social Security.
BTW, almost no water ever leaves her property as she has percolation ponds to catch the rain water, though the ponds have been dry for years.
People, please protest this scam by Los Angeles County.
Thank you.

By: Joseph G. Tabares

Joseph G. Tabares — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:42:17 +0000

I am not in favor of this new tax.

By: Brice

Brice — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:34:36 +0000

I got my notice. I agree, at first glance, i thought it was junk mail. what i don’t like about this measure is that they aren’t collecting votes for the measure, but against it. which means that they assume people are for the measure and we have to take action to vote it down. the other disappointing thing about the process is that they have a public hearing during a regular work day 1/15/13 at 9:30am. Most people cannot take off work to file a complaint. So, they designed this whole process to minimize a negative public outcry.

I’m for sustainability, but in today’s economy where i have no equity in my property, my company haven’t given cost of living increases, and i can barely keep up with the credit card payments, this is yet another burden i can do without, even though this will not be assessed until 2014-15.

By: doug

doug — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:55:04 +0000

i have notified my neighborhood association about the flyer.
we will be talking about it next week at our monthly meeting.

thanks CalWatch!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:07:36 +0000

Another swindle job proposed by out of touch Government officials. They should leave the confines of their cushy offices and go out and check the economic weather. Small business are getting wacked. My tax bill for my small building is already a bloated 14K a year. If this measure passes it goes up almost 10%. This on top of the ridiculous separate surcharges we already pay to the sanitation dept and local city agencies. We are over taxed and over regulated while the rest of world plays by a totally different set of rules. How can America ever make anything other than a cup of coffee? Who speaks for small business and property owners? We keep hearing how we are so important to any recovery yet these type of measures just demonstrate how misrepresented we all our.

By: doug

doug — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:47:51 +0000

i, like susan received the “public hearing notice” from LA county yesterday.
my parcel tax was determined to be $54 annually.

the 2-color brochure cover looks like a piece of junk mail and can easily be tossed out amongst the local market flyers. be on the look out for it.

thanks CalWatch for posting this article!

By: Dougo

Dougo — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:00:17 +0000

We’ve already turned our front yard into a dessert, made our driveway water permeable and replaced our backyard grass with an organic garden. We’ve even given input to a local parks design which won it a grant for water reclamation construction. As you can see we are for clean water but this is ridiculous! Give the voter the choice on election day after the issues have been discussed. Forcing people to pay a tax on this will only make them more entitled to abuse and pollute! Can’t wait for the next two parts.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:55:43 +0000

Another reason for businesses to close up shop and move, or never come to LA to begin with. With a shrinking tax base, from whom are they supposed to collect taxes from?
Hondo……..

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:41:14 +0000

Luckily I live in only-slightly more sane Orange County.

The City of LA? The County? These were more or less nice places…..

…………..in 1970.

With few exceptions the whole joint is now a giant pissoir, as the French would say.

Happily I have little need to venture north of Buena Park. Perhaps 5 or 6 times a year. That’s plenty.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:28 +0000

One more thing. On the bottom of page 3 of the County’s Notice of Public Hearing that property owners will be receiving this week there is a form you can immediately sign and return to the County to protest the parcel tax. Very simple, it will take two minutes. That is of course in addition to the opportunity to pepper them with letters of protest or even make an actual personal appearance at the public hearing in January. You might also want to consider printing out and making copies of the Calwatchdog article to hand out to all of your neighbors. And watch the so-called “partisan divide” disappear like magic….