I am a small business attorney. I am like a M.A.S.H. surgeon,
witnessing the carnage from the worst recession in my 24 years of
practice.
Dear Editor:
I am a small business attorney. I am like a M.A.S.H. surgeon, witnessing the carnage from the worst recession in my 24 years of practice.
Small businesses are dying, folding, going under, filing bankruptcy petitions at historic high levels, both business and individual.
I urge you to oppose Silicon Valley Manufacturers Group and its politico-transit alliance allies, who are hell-bent in stabbing small business owners in the back by repealing the super-majority voting requirements for tax increases. Proposition 13’s protections have saved countless small business owners from insolvency, or losing their homes and families. Repealing Prop. 13’s protections will be the death-knoll for them.
For the past quarter of a century, they have relied upon its provisions to get and keep housing in California, knowing that at least they would have homes in this state upon reaching retirement. Now, to satisfy the socialist transit goals of radical socialists like SVMG and Democratic-Socialist leaders in the Legislature, they want to revoke a covenant between our government and our small business owners. If you support SVMG on this one, then don’t be surprised if we end up with a state comprised of billionaires, government public-sector union employees and impoverished millions.
I am a member of the Executive Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Debtor-Creditor-Commercial Law Section, but I write from my own heart, my own experience, not on behalf of any organization to which I belong, but definitely on behalf of a rapidly diminishing, vanishing breed – California small business owner.
Instead of taxing us more, why not make public transit riders pay their own way? Instead of taxing motorists more, terminate light rail (heavy socialism) and send the “Boondoggles Empty Seat Transporters Association” followers back to the School for Soviet Planners, or better yet, to study Adam Smith, not Karl Marx.
If we defeated the USSR in the Cold War, why should we adopt its failed economic philosophy?
At the very least, make transit agencies obey our law. At present, VTA in Silicon Valley is violating the farebox recovery minimum required by the Public Utilities Code. Who is aiding and abetting this rape of the California taxpayers?
Joe Thompson,
Tres Pinos
