Proposition A is nothing more than tax cash cow

To the editor:

Proposition A proponents promise all sorts of health-care programs if it's passed. If you believe them, consider this: Since at least 1949, the government has been promising such programs. In February 1949, Congress was considering health insurance for 125 million persons with free choice of doctors.

Proposition A is only another means of raising taxes without too much opposition. Next? Higher taxes maybe on unhealthy foods or on alcohol products? Our government is not concerned so much with our health as it is with how to get more of your money.

The more they can raise tobacco taxes, the more they hope smokers do not quit, thereby killing their latest cash cow and leaving them scrambling for other tax means to pay for new programs.

MARY TOOMBS

Marble Hill, Mo.