{"id":315463,"date":"2026-05-14T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:33:07","slug":"l-a-should-fix-runaway-spending-before-implementing-more-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315463\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. should fix runaway spending before implementing more taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editor: To quote Ronald Reagan, \u201cHere we go again.\u201d It seems the only solution Democrats can find is taxes.<\/p>\n

City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian has come up with a measure that taxes private country clubs, potentially raising up to $250 million for city services and capital improvement projects (\u201cA tax on golf courses? L.A. voters could decide this November,\u201d<\/a> May 8). City services and capital improvements we are already paying a hefty tax for. Misuse of current tax money by those running this city is the real issue. Nazarian should be focused on correcting the runaway spending, rather than the usual tax and spend.<\/p>\n

Carlos Ferreyra, Valley Glen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: To quote Ronald Reagan, \u201cHere we go again.\u201d It seems the only solution Democrats can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[79033,132073,75253,132074,2072,100720,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,6636,81000,11053,50615,132071,132072,1747],"class_list":["post-315463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-capital-improvement-project","tag-carlos-ferreyra","tag-city-service","tag-current-tax-money","tag-editor","tag-golf-course","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-misuse","tag-more-taxis","tag-november","tag-real-issue","tag-runaway-spending","tag-spend","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}