Officially Unequal

In “Tribal Restaurants Will Be Exempted From Sales Taxes” (Dec. 24), Board of Equalization members Dean Andal, a Republican, and Johan Klehs, a Democrat, in justifying not collecting sales taxes from restaurants owned by Indian tribes, are respectively quoted as saying, “There is no revenue loss because we never collect it” and “It saves the state money in the long run by not having litigation costs and by us not having to do audits.”

Perhaps Board of Equalization members will also buy that rationale in my case if I tell them that they will not lose revenue and will save money if I don’t pay income, sales, tire, liquor, utility, property, unemployment, disability, vehicle or any of the other taxes that the state extracts from me. After all, it is the Board of Equalization, and it would certainly treat me the same as everyone else.

Hugh Rose

Newhall