{"id":355129,"date":"2025-11-04T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355129\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:03:10","slug":"time-to-starve-the-beast-and-send-a-message-to-city-hall-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355129\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to \u2018starve the beast\u2019 and send a message to City Hall \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cCity won\u2019t turn off its \u2018tap\u2019 on taxpayers unless it\u2019s forced to\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/10\/31\/city-wont-turn-off-its-tap-on-taxpayers-unless-its-forced-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oct. 31<\/a>): In my opinion, elected officials and bureaucrats in California are so used to milking citizen-taxpayers that they see all the taxes and fees they collect from the public and from businesses as \u201cfree money.\u201d It takes brave citizens like Howard Jarvis, who led the California property tax revolt in 1978 with Proposition 13, to stop this. Even though this measure was backed by huge margins of state voters, our current lawmakers are going against its spirit by forcing us to pay all types of new fees. The only way we can stop this is by \u201cstarving the beast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohan Bhakta, Gaslamp Quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cCity won\u2019t turn off its \u2018tap\u2019 on taxpayers unless it\u2019s forced to\u201d (Oct. 31): In my opinion,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-355129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115491805876219334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}