City Hall a taxing operation
More hikes in electric and water rates. A ballot scheme to save the phone tax. A plan to tax Los Angeles property owners to pay for gang intervention and prevention programs.
The people of Los Angeles are City Hall's targets even as city workers have gotten recent double-digit salary increases and the city budget has soared nearly 60 percent to $6.8 billion in just seven years. Kerry Cavanaugh and Beth Barrett in the Daily News.
To some, the trend is evidence that the nation's second-largest municipality is in trouble.
"The hole just keeps getting deeper all the time," said David Fleming, chair of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.
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