The city of San Diego has a gap between city income and city expenses and Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Council started closing the gap by cutting expenses. The state of California has a gap between state income and state expenses, and the solutions of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature are tax increases, which they call reforms. They raised the sales tax, income tax and car tax and reduced the child credit by $200 per child and call that reform. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association says the increases amount to $16 BILLION dollars in tax hikes. Now they are asking us to vote yes on Proposition 1A to extend the increases an additional 2 years. Should we say “no” to these tax-increasing politicians and try to elect some expense-cutting politicians to state offices at the next election?