You’re right about that. Just a personal anecdote: I had occasion to live in Miami and the first and second generations of Cubans who came over learned English (or made certain their children did) and were very productive people who were successful in the business and professional world. Our Sen. Mel Martinez (R) is a good example. But that all changed when Castro emptied his prisons and sent all his degenerates and mentally deranged people here. Remember that imbecile Jimmy Carter welcoming the mariolitas to our shores?
They have figured out how to increase revenue as well as import more Mexicans. Home owners now have to fix their own sidewalks.
They are thinking of kicking soccer Mom’s and Mexican gardeners out of the carpool lanes and turning those lanes into toll lanes for the rich. A dollar per mile.
They are going to increase the number of street cleaning days so that they can tow more cars and have more income from tickets.
They are going to increase the parking meters to $4.00 an hour.
They are going to tax us on our phone bills $2.25 a month for 911 calls.
They just misled voters into voting for a 9 percent phone tax by withholding the fact that the current 10 percent tax was illegal.
We have to place our kids in private schools as well as pay for the public immigrant schools.
And this from the Daily News;
Next week the City Council is set to vote on subsidies for Grand Avenue development, which include letting the developers keep the first $60 million they raise through the hotel bed tax - a subsidy so overly generous it prompted another downtown hotel to file a lawsuit, which was recently settled.
The redevelopment project would also get to keep $5.5 million in parking taxes as well as $24 million from the Community Redevelopment Agency, $29 million in improvements paid for by local government and $4.6 million from the county.
That’s an outrageous giveaway to rich developers and operators of luxury hotels and retail shops when working Angelenos are being forced to pay higher fees just to cover basic city services.