Re “Plan to tax short-term rentals stalls” (Jan. 29): What I continue to see from this City Council and mayor is the refusal to do what is needed to solve the budget problem. They must force reform in the city’s pension plan and cut high-paying middle- and upper-management jobs. Our city must maintain services and road repairs wherever possible. The answer is not to continue to tax segments of our citizenry, foisting the burden onto them — specifically local owners of vacation rentals and the residents who use our beautiful Balboa Park.
This city has already hammered those of us who own homes into paying additional fees for trash, even though those expenses were already covered by our property taxes. What is next from these guys? Don’t they get it by now? Attention, City Hall: We are sick of you continuing to raise our taxes due to your inept management of our money! Wake up!
— Glen Volk, Point Loma