Writer questions 'Cadillac' health care for state employees, new tax burdens

Letter to the Editor,

I don’t really understand a health-care clinic being built and staffed with top-notch doctors and top-notch equipment that is for state employees only. 

They already receive paid Cadillac health care insurance that costs $733 per month, with each and having instant access to care before the public does.

Why do they require their own care facility and one that is not even used to put Montana workers to work but is being outsourced to a company in Tennessee and the taxpayers are supposed to pay for this when we are supposedly short of money for other important programs that need to be cut? 

And, no one says anything!

Now the gas tax – so there is more money to spend and waste. Use that up and look for something else to tax or now able to raise the gas tax but never ever cut back on any spending or look for the huge waste that continues.

It’s the same with cities, counties, states and the federal government. Spend and tax and see what new laws can be passed for the citizens and how much more we can give to other countries and spend as fast as possible.

Where does it ever stop or do we have to be a country in total poverty before we see what is happening and the giving stops?

Everyone needs to help.

Where are you, Bill Payne? We need your input and intelligence and hope people can see that we are on the wrong path.

—Mavis Bitz

Libby