LETTERS: MISSOURIANS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET BACK TO FRUGAL SPENDING

To the editor:

All this imbroglio about what the Hancock II/Amendment will cost schools, police, roads and perhaps even unwed mothers overlooks the main point.

Sure, many of these groups may lose some money, while all of us Missourians will gain NOW -- and certainly in the long run.

Things people could lose with this early restriction of Hancock II -- if they are really wanted and needed -- will certainly be brought to a vote and passed, including intelligent backers of Hancock II -- just as an increase in our gas tax was brought before the people and approved.

I'm positive that most of the decrease in tax money for most of these so-called losers will come back to them later, after they've learned to spend more frugally and wisely.

The main point of Hancock II is that there should not be ungodly high, unwanted taxes pushed on all of us as Gov. Carnahan has done and could again in the future.

We truly need to protect ourselves from these "I want it all" bureaucrats who have siphoned money out of our pockets -- and lives -- of EVERYONE who calls Missouri home.

Let's get away from the spend-it-all goons and back to the needs of the frugal people who made this nation one of the best in the past.

CHARLES E. STIVER

Cape Girardeau