More Realities of Prop. 13

You must have been hard up for a subject to have to select Proposition 13 to pick on (“Don’t Be a ‘Girlie Man,’ ” by Lee Green, April 17). Green did a good knee-jerk attack of something he knows nothing about. I am more than 90 years old and living on Social Security and a small income from investments, but I pay more than $300 a month in taxes to live in my home. If politicians and their left-wing special interest people spent existing tax money honestly and wisely, there wouldn’t be such a howl to raise property taxes.

James Kerr

Laguna Beach

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Thank you for at last printing some sense about Proposition 13, which is nothing less than rent control for homeowners. When my subsidized neighbors call a plumber or have a roof repaired, I wonder if they also expect those services to be supplied at 1970s prices. Or is it only local government that is supposed to live in a time warp?

Craig Zerouni

Los Angeles

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As Green concedes, Proposition 13 was born out of citizen frustration “over rocketing property taxes and government indifference.” I haven’t seen any changes! How about a new proposition? One that says, like risk insurance, that the more you have to lose, the higher the premium. Let those who have the most to lose pay the piper.

Paul Thornquist

Thousand Oaks

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If Green or anyone else feels that Proposition 13 is unfair and wants to help, they don’t have to wait until it is changed. They can just make out a check and send it to Sacramento. Why hurt the rest of us who are grateful that Proposition 13 has allowed us to stay in our homes?

Terri Blazell

West Covina