MTA tax measure goes to ballot

Thank you Michael Antonovich for your informative artice about your position on equitable distribution of revenues under a new countrywide sales tax. It is right on!
You have my support.

A subregion voter.

It's official now. All of the transpiration funding the SGV will receive is for that smog producing big rig shipping corridor through South Pas starting from the port of Los Angeles. Other than that we get nothing. No Gold Line funding or freeway improvements. Nothing that benefits our area, only what benefits LA County and the MTA.

When considering the new sales tax LA County wants us to vote for it is important to realize that LA is a monetary black hole with all the corruption going on. We have hard working Whites, Asians, Hispanics and Blacks who don't like getting screwed out here.

No Gold Line; then no sales tax and No Toll lanes! Refuse taxation without representation. Don't buy big ticket items in LA County, use the internet. And just revolt and disregard the toll lanes. If you get a ticket don't pay. It will only work if everyone joins in.

We need a succession movement from Los Angeles now. Those criminals will keep riding us for taxes until we're dead.

Who ever puts together a succession movement from Los Angeles will get honored with a statue at both ends of the SGV. The SGV has enough money to become the next Orange County and can be great if we use our money on ourselves. We should annex the unincorporated areas of LA that are a blight in our communities, fix them up and have nothing to do with Los Angeles County except maybe contract with them for emergency services when needed. We pay an arm and a leg for those services anyway.

It is as clear as day now. The SGV makes the money. We pay taxes. LA country takes money. They are tax takers. We give; they take and give it to anyone in LA County but us. That is the only relationship we have with LA County. Most recently they have been bullied by the San Fernando Valley mafia after this area ran a successful succession movement. Good for them, bad for us.

These bastards in LA City Hall and at the MTA think we are too complacent and stupid to put together a succession movement. LA County and those city hall bribe taking crooks think we are nothing more than a bunch of do nothing aging W.A.S.P’s coupled with gullible money making immigrants. Let’s pack our shit and leave and see how well they do when the gravy train stops.

Too bad the LA Daily News doesn't serve the SGV. They helped get the secession movement on the ballot in the San Fernando Valley. I doubt the Pasadena Star News which is owned by the LA Daily News has the balls to do this for the SGV.

One thing is for sure, everyone is sick of getting screwed out here by LA County and something has to be done right now; not later. Apparently our regional politicians have heard us loud and clear as Drier, Molina, Antonovich and Solis all say they will not support the tax hike if the Gold Line isn't built.

Garry Miller appears to be leading the charge for the SGV to get its share. Good for him. When was the last time all these politicians agreed on something? Amazing.

The MTA must be dismantled or at the very least all current members voted out along with the incompetent LA mayor. This organization is full of corruption. No way should ANYONE in LA have to give these people another dime to piss away.

Two years ago the MTA and LA County raided the SGV's tansportation bond funds that were supposed to fix the 10/605 interchange and handed them over to the San Fernando Valley to improve the 101 in order get a few extra votes from the San Fernando Valley. Do you think they are going to change if this sales tax is approved?

Also did you know the only reason the Gold Line was built was because the Feds forced LA County to give us funding. David Drier played a big role in getting funding for the Gold Line so thank him. If it had been up to MTA and LA County the Gold Line would never have been built. If only more people knew. No on this sales tax! Prop 13 is already being dismantled with all these sneaky county and state bonds.

The MTA gets my vote of NO CONFIDENCE. For over fifteen years they have stiffed the SGV out of projects and funding, causing increased congestion, longer commutes, and decreased business for us. In their last Board Meeting, they voted to lose $320 MILLION free Federal dollars rather than release the $80 million of taxdollars we already paid to fund the Gold Line. That, in order to recruit more votes for their sales tax levy on the November ballot! Vote NO on any new sales tax increases. The MTA tunnel subway projects have cost over $1 Billion Dollars a MILE last time, how many billions/mile this time? We can't afford it and don't need it. The MTA is focused on political decisions that will help the City of LA. San Gabriel Valley to them is only a large region of taxpayers with zero voice in decisions. Non responsive agencies and schools may be ok in LA, but out here they're not acceptable. Lets take our tax dollars and federal matching monies and start our own regional transportation agency. The idea of "regional" transportation planning has failed due to corrupt politics. Now its just time for effective planning. I hope our local mayors are listening.