Heads Up Folks – Important Info on Prop 29

by Harold Ey

Fact: There were about 2800 bills proposed, but almost none of them dealt with slowing the growth of government, the deficit, creating jobs or reducing taxes. So now we vote on Proposition 29, all for the benefit of funding cancer research a new $1.00 a pack tax is proposed. yea sure, a major part of this bill is to create ANOTHER office of California administrative bureaucrats, and the clever politicians realizing that this bill may cut consummation of cigarettes wrote that a TRANSFER of funds (taxes) to the GENERAL FUND in order to preserve the expense and longevity of another NEW Government division. This bill is just another tax of private income to preserve growing Government waste. I don’t smoke,and do not like being around second hand smoke, however as long as it is considered a free choice activity by these very same Politic ions, I will not support their veiled attempt to add more taxes to the general fund for their benefit. Let them write a bill properly and exclusive to the prevention of cancer through smoking, and I’ll support it. This is not that bill! So I am going NO on 29 and any other bill that infuses GENERAL FUND coffers new tax dollars to create more money for political waste.