By Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor Of Los Angeles, WalterMoore For Mayor.com

The ink isn’t dry on Prop S, and already City Hall is planning the next tax hike, along with the cover story to sell it. 

The City Auditor just issued a report saying that the City’s various “anti-gang” programs are a big, uncoordinated mess. 

City Council Member Janice Hahn has already concluded that the solution to this problem is, of course, the same solution City Hall always identifies for every problem:  raise your taxes.

According to the Daily News, “Hahn said she plans to use the report to leverage her plan to ask voters in November to approve a $36-a-year parcel tax that would raise an estimated $30 million for gang prevention, intervention and after-school programs.” 

I, for one, am shocked by her restraint.  Why wait for November?  Why not just declare another “fiscal emergency” and blow another $5.1 million for a special election, so we can raise those taxes and solve the gang problem now?  We clearly aren’t taxed enough yet; I’m still walking around with nearly eight dollars in my pocket.

Oh, I forgot:  City Hall needs to time these tax hikes for high-turnout presidential elections, where most of the voters who show up don’t follow local politics and can therefore be duped more easily.