When I wrote about my idea for a patio smoking tax, I thought I was being original. Not exactly right. I just discovered that long time Hermosa Beach activist Jim Lissner is proposing, and has fleshed out quite nicely, a business tax on alcohol serving bars and restaurants. He has posted it on his site VivaHermosa.com .
They differ in that my business tax is on smoking and his is on alcohol, but any sin tax will do, as long as it helps to plug the hole in the Hermosa Beach City School District budget.
So we now have Hermosa Beach City Councilman and Mayor Peter Tucker proposing a parcel tax, and Jim Lissner proposing a revised business tax structure that would have alcohol serving establishments paying more than they do now. We also have Russell Wilson, whose article Hermosa Dad Asks Community to Invest in Schools and whose blog Save Hermosa's Schools advocate a parcel tax and a charter school approach to have the Hermosa school district become permanently solvent and totally decoupled from the country's terrible education environment.
It looks like people are starting to take this all seriously. That means there will be a solution.
Be sure to attend this:
STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE MTG
Thursday, March 3, 2011 @ 6:00PMHermosa Valley School, Multipurpose Room
1645 Valley Drive • Hermosa Beach, CA
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