California Voters Approve New Spending for Roads and Rails

On the passage of the Props. 108 and 111--thank you, Times, for your endorsement of these initiatives! And thank you California voters. I now look forward to:

1. Paying more taxes and having practically no improvement, if any, on the current transportation system.

2. Higher Caltrans overhead expenditures and more waste in one business that should be competitive.

3. Higher costs for consumer goods due to the 55% truck weight fee increase that will be passed down to us all.

Should I go on? No accountability yet has been demanded for all the millions that already go to Sacramento for gas taxes, licensing fees, registration fees, and a myriad of other taxes which we now pay.

Did it occur to the writers of the initiatives, our government in Sacramento, and all those who voted for these initiatives to cut costs and waste? It is funny when an individual’s checkbook is running low he stops spending, but when the state has mismanaged the transit system and our tax dollars, officials simply raise taxes.

CHRISTINE MAIMONE

Garden Grove