Restaurant’s struggle to stay in business shows toll of recent years

Re “Family-run Las Cuatro Milpas will stay in business for now, but hefty tax bill looms over restaurant’s future” (Oct. 24): The article said, “the fate of San Diego’s oldest Mexican restaurant remains uncertain in light of county tax records showing that the Logan Avenue property and an adjoining parcel owned by family members are in default on four years worth of property tax bills totaling nearly $50,000. …’I know I have to pay the taxes,’ said Margarita Hernandez, whose grandparents opened Las Cuatro Milpas in 1933. ‘I paid for 25 years or whatever it was, and then things started going crazy. And everyone was selling things for three times what they cost.’”

What a poignant, irrefutable, nonpartisan reminder of exactly what everyday Americans and small business owners have faced in the four years from 2021 to 2024.

— J. Berg, San Diego