THE PUBLIC MIND: PLEASE, NO NEW TAXES: LET PEOPLE DIRECT ECONOMY BY HOLDING ON TO DOLLARS

Open Letter to State Rep. Mary Kasten:

Please, no new taxes.

Regardless of everything, once the government puts on a tax it never comes off. The money goes into that vast sinkhole that a bunch of politicians call need.

The tax to pay for the Show Me Center is being wasted and not used for a valid purpose. Retire the debt.

We hope that a vote for you is not a vote for new taxes.

What a 6-cent gas tax will do for the economy is crap.

The federal government does not have enough guts to declare a tax directly, but tries to use an indirect method like the claimed need for a state tax to match funds that the Federal Government will give. It's just a stalking horse for the levy of a new tax by the Federal Government. Congress should change that law.

The people of the United States do not need a new tax. They need fiscal responsibility, a new health care system, a better-managed economy and government-financed elections so the politicians are not prostitutes to the PACs, and the vested interest groups, that finance the election of our representatives in government. Give the government back to the people and take it away from the vested interests.

Please quit taking away from the economy by levying taxes. Let the people decide where our money is to be spent by leaving the money with the people.

The AARP gets $1,300,000 from the Prudential Insurance Company to keep them in the Health Care Business. This increases the cost of the system. Expand Medicare to cover all the people, and maybe we can have some cost containment. That is why the AARP is trying to sell the wrong kind, and the most costly, delivery system. Health Care didn't cost much until insurance was provided. Then the fight over the pork started.

E. Charles Geittmann

Cape Girardeau