text: Mr. Flynn, I reread the column that got your undies in a bunch and do not for the life of me see where I said Proposition 8 would lower taxes. I asked if we wanted lower taxes. Surely a guy as smart as you can grasp the nuance. And I did not "mischaracterize" its effects. You know better. You can do the math, too. Whether your assertion was willful prevarication or plain prevarication is unclear. If you guys had taxed to the cap every year - as the left wing of the Assembly has wanted - we would, indeed, be paying  $141.9 million in additional taxes this year, not including the school district levy. If the left wing of the Assembly had its way, the city would tax to the max each and every year. Your nonsense about tax relief is just that ... nonsense.