January 14, 2014 Open Letter to City of San Diego Business Owners Dear City of San Diego Business Owner, San Diego is working hard to establish its reputation as an anti-business, anti-taxpayer city. Nothing demonstrates this better than the Linkage Fee, also known as the Jobs Tax; a fee that actually attacks your business and the jobs you create. If …
Rescind Egregiously Stupid Tax – San Diego Linkage Fee
Rare is the day when we have the ability to directly rebuke the stupidity of our city council; but that day would be today. Two months ago I pointed out the uselessness of linkage fees in alleviating affordable housing problems, even if that is the stated purpose of the tax. Felipe Monroig of the SD County Taxpayer’s Association showed that …
What You Should Be Reading
I took a real vacation and paid only a little attention to the political world and made no attempt to blog. It was worthwhile to re-unite with my oldest son and enjoy some of God’s creation and some good man-made stuff too. Mrs. Daddy and I loved the colder and wetter weather we encountered, not typical of Arizona, we hit …
Linkage Fees Do Nothing for Affordable Housing
The need for a Republican mayor to veto leftist nonsense was on display Monday, when the San Diego city council passed whopping increases in the “linkage fees” on new development that ranges from 377% to 744%. The fees are supposed to help provide affordable housing when new development results in low paying jobs. Don’t ask me how creating jobs makes …
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