Re: Thomas D. Elias' Oct. 21 commentary, "Whitman's eBay tax stance under review":
I am totally amazed Elias would condemn Meg Whitman for denying the California legislators millions of tax revenue. "The chance to collect big money," he says.
What would they do with it? Pay the state's debt? Save it for the proverbial rainy day? Maybe return it to the taxpayer?
We have gotten the state far enough it debt. Don't give it to us more. We will just spend it and borrow some more to spend.
Elias says Whitman is "contributing significantly to the ongoing fiscal crisis." Nonsense! I suppose he favors a California Constitutional Convention to override Proposition 13. Howard Jarvis saved the taxpayer several billion that they would add to the current state debt. Sounds like he wants Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown for governor.
Stick with "change." I have heard that word before. Let's do it: Provide the California tax-and-spenders with pocket change to spend and keep the folding stuff out of their hands.
-- Robert Charlton, Thousand Oaks