Walters: Los Angeles and Bay Area voters to decide whether to hike already high sales taxes

This year California voters will choose a new governor, fill other statewide offices, elect 100 state legislators and 52 members of Congress and weigh an array of knotty ballot measures.

Meanwhile, officials in the state’s largest urban centers, Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area, will test voters’ appetite for raising sales tax rates — already among the nation’s highest — to levels never before seen in California.

Los Angeles officials are asking voters in the June...