Proposition 86			00.00 10/09
	Opinion
	Submitted as: "The Tobacco Tax Act Of 2006"
	Prop 86 is a grand plan to remake the medical system of California, financed by a huge tax increase in the price of cigarettes.
	Take a look at the table on our Summary page for this Measure.  Pathetic amounts of money are allocated to real cancer research and tobacco use prevention.  Instead, much more than half the money raised goes to brand new programs, created expressly to be funded by this measure.  More than half goes to hospitals, especially to those favored by the backers of this initiative, to pay for emergency care, conditioned upon the willingness of the hospitals to submit to a whole new level of state bureaucracy.
	A quarter goes to provide health care for children, and expressly removes the requirement that those children be legal residents of the state.  Another major component is dedicated specifically to pay for the education of nurses.  But absolutely zero goes for the education of doctors.  Not a dime.  Why not?
	Prop 86 is another of those cruel legalisms that defines a special class of evil, or in this case just a particularly bad habit, and punishes it with a special tax, which is supposedly justified because the rest of us are going to get such a great benefit from it.  This is just plain wrong.  If we are going to remake the world, let's do it because we have all agreed to do so, and are willing to pay for it, not because we're told we can get there via a free ride financed by the addictions of teen age boys.
	Vote NO on 86.
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