To the editor:

Are we now beginning to wonder who these people are who are spending millions of dollars on attack ads aimed against candidates who support repealing the tax cuts given to multi-millionaires in 2003? We should ask, “Who has millions of dollars to spend?” They give themselves nice-sounding names like “citizens for good government” or “Americans against big government,” but this tells us nothing. They make statements like “job killing taxes” and “government-run health care” with no supporting evidence. Remember, truth in advertising does NOT apply to political ads.

One such ad stated that Americans don’t want the government to force them to buy health insurance. There are now 51 million Americans with no health insurance, the great majority of whom are working people. According to the AMA, there are 25,000 people who die each year in the U.S. because they can’t afford medical care. Can you imagine what we would do if 25,000 died in terrorist attacks?

And what about that 2 percent or 3 percent of Americans who would have to pay more taxes if the 2003 tax cuts were repealed? Some say that these people “drive the economy” by buying 32 percent of goods and services. Do they buy 32 percent of the food, clothing, cars and gasoline; do they live in 32 percent of the houses? How much of their income above $250,000 is spent on any consumer item?

These ads like saying, “We want our country back.” What they should be saying is, “We don’t want ordinary Americans to get their country back.”