Making Corporations Pay Under Prop. 89 is Fair
By Craig Dunkerley, Letter to the Editor
Re "Public Financing of Campaigns Is the Right Idea, but
Prop. 89 Is Wrong Way to Do It," column, Sept. 14
I'm grateful for George Skelton's praise of Proposition
89's provisions for the public financing of campaigns, but
I'm sorry to see that he's so concerned about how it will
be funded.
He asks: If it's good for the whole state, why should only
corporations pay for it?
I submit that because corporations currently wield the
lion's share of the disproportionate influence in
Sacramento, it seems appropriate to have them fund the
minuscule cost of correcting that problem.
This seems additionally appropriate when one realizes that
it is primarily because of this huge, disproportionate
influence that their tax rate is less than it was in 1980.
Seems fair to me.
CRAIG DUNKERLEY
San Jose
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