To the editor: Ethical of this story: Governments shouldn’t depend on their very own incompetence, inefficiencies and stubbornness as a income stream to bilk us, the taxpayers (“He did everything right. His Los Angeles parking fine kept growing anyway,” April 13).
What occurred to Paul Cook dinner and his parking ticket just about precisely occurred to me with town of Santa Monica.
Contesting wrongful assessments like these is troublesome or unattainable whenever you maintain a full-time job. However metropolis governments financial institution on our lack of time.
Somewhat than dismiss our claims, parking enforcement businesses ought to price range cash and manpower to examine the veracity of our assertions, that are normally not made-up. As a substitute, they waste court docket and administrative assets and, worst of all, our beneficial time to resolve what may simply be mounted — by them.
Barely painted curbs, non-functioning parking meters and uncared for or misplaced parking indicators are apparent. Repair ’em.
Richard Rothschild, Santa Monica
