Stop the Cancer Tax - Vote No on Prop 15

Of the five bond proposals up for vote, the one that is least accountable and least deserving support is Proposition 15, an attempt to get Texans to pay for a $3 billion cancer research boondoggle.

Even though it seems to have universal support by the 'powers-that-be', there is an organized group out there fighting for taxpayers on this and against the proposition. www.Prop15FACT.org has the facts on the proposition and the real costs and (non)-benefits. They been able to get some airplay - a news clip on VoteNO campaign.

www.Prop15FACT.org references our previous Travis Monitor op-ed - Texas Cancer program & Proposition 15 - Not Needed. We noted earlier how this adds less than 1% to Federal and state medical research money, and does it in an inefficient (why bonds?) and unaccountable manner (why a 10-year open-ended commitment without ability to trim budgets?). It's a bad deal all around.

And it is the taxpayers here in Texas who will pay for whatever boondoggle program the tax-and-spend politicians can get the voters to support. It seems that time and again, the taxpayer is the forgotten element in the debates and discussions on these sorts of issues. It's about time we made the taxpayer the key part of the consideration.