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(Apr. 3, 2014, 8:45 a.m.) -- Long Beach taxpayers are literally being TAXED TO DEATH in the form of Proposition A. This tax measure is exorbitant and will place an egregious burden on people with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, seizures, PTSD, various disabilities, etc. No other physician-prescribed medicine in California faces such punitive measures.

Additionally, it creates a precedent for any business to be taxed at prohibitive rates that will drive them to more business-friendly cities. And, it will empower the black market in providing cheaper, untaxed medicine to desperate patients.

Revenues from this proposal may well end up fattening slush funds for the greedy politicians that have proposed it.

Haven't LB citizens been bled enough? A NO vote on Prop A will let City Hall know that we taxpayers want less frivolous spending and no more excessive taxes.