LA Metro’s $120 Billion Tax Increase: No Oversight, No Deal | Consumer Alliance for a Strong Economy

By Jack Humphreville at Fox & Hounds

April 4, 2016

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“Metro”), Mayor Eric Garcetti, and the transportation lobby have started their full court press on the voters of Los Angeles County to approve a new 40 year, half cent increase in our sales tax to a 9½%, one of the highest rates in the country.

This new tax, along with an 18 year extension of the half cent increase in our sales tax that we authorized in 2008 when 67.2% of the voters approved Measure R, will raise an additional $120 billion that will fund a “variety of transit related infrastructure and programs needed to build and operate a balanced multi-modal transportation system.”