Letter: Tax food sales to foreign purchasers (July 16)
If the state wants to make beaucoup sales and tax monies, it should raise prices and taxes on food staples shipped to foreign countries, such as rice and other grain grown in California.
Fruits and vegetables shipped to foreign countries should be “sky high” in order to enrich California’s farmers. People have to eat, and foreign governments have billions of dollars to buy our foodstuffs.
America is one of the most productive food producers in the world, and we should not sell our food products on the cheap to foreign countries. If the “Wheat Rust” virus cuts world production of wheat, we can really make a bundle on sales and tax dollars.
Food can be America’s oil, and we will have no budget deficits.
John Sanchez,
Rosemead
